Top 11 Stories This Week: Obama Hearts Walmart, Target CEO Resigns

Obama Visits Walmart, "What Numb-skull Organized That?"

Barack Obama is visiting a Walmart in California, recognizing their environmental efforts.  Robert Reich trashes the White House for the 'Numbskull' move.

More: Check out what it's like to work at the Walmart Obama visited today.

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Target CEO resigns weeks after second anti-union video released, months after 40 million credit card records stolen from stores. CEO could get over $23 million in severance. Read more.

WHAT'S NEWS THIS WEEK 1.  Obama's Visit to Walmart, Sends the Wrong Message- UFCW President Joe Hansen On Friday, President Obama will stand side by side with a company known for low wages, few benefits, unreliable hours, discrimination against women, violating workers’ rights, and yes, environmental degradation. Workers are rightfully outraged. 2. CEO for Biggest Food Chain Comes Out for Minimum Wage Increase

3. Seattle Takes Another Step towards $15/hr Seattle has moved towards a $15 minimum wage, could this be real?

4. Stop & Shop Withdraws Expansion Plans

5. Whole Foods Stock Dips 18.5% following an Honest Assessment & Motley Fool thinks it's still too $10 too high

6. Strikes Win Again...This Time at University of California

7. Fast Food Strikes Planned in over 200 Cities Next Week

8. ShopRite Re-Opens After Roof Collapse

9. UFCW Lobby Day is Tuesday! Join hundreds of UFCW Members as we fight for a better New York!

10. Key Food, Wild by Nature Agreements Reached, Voting Next Week

11. Mrs. Green's Announces NYC Expansion, Workers Educate NYC Communities

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Top 12 Stories This Week

The higher the dot, the more income inequality:  1.  New Study (Even though we all know this): The United States has the WORST income inequality in the developed world!  Thanks to Wall Street- Check out the study.

2.   Walmart's poor earnings caused Wall Street to slip.

3.  UFCW on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington :  “The need to mobilize for freedom, jobs and equality has never been stronger, and the UFCW is honored to continue the work of the 1963 activists by fighting for social and economic justice in the workplace and in our communities.”

4.  Know Robert Reich? After you see his new movie on the middle class, you'll want to.  (Watch this, worth it)

5.  The new model for American Liberalism may be in tact in California...Check out what the L.A. Alliance for a New Economy is doing.

6.  Check out what Cobert had to say about raising the minimum wage, and how it might help America's poverty problems.

7.  Stop & Frisk, a controversial police tactic here in NYC, was ruled federally unconstitutional this week...Mayor Bloomberg wasn't happy.

8.  The Asian specialty grocer, H Mart, is opening a new location in Bayside.

9.  Walmart is opening college campus stores, again.

10.  North Carolina has some new voting restrictions, and they pretty much suppress elderly, minorities, students and anyone with low-income. 

11.  An audit found the NSA violated Surveillance Rules a couple of times.

12.  Fast-Food Strikes: "To Grow Much Bigger Than You'd Expect"- Union Leader.