{"id":50102,"date":"2014-12-26T08:15:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50102"},"modified":"2014-12-26T12:35:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T18:35:36","slug":"getting-ahead-by-staying-bahind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50102","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ahead By Staying Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart stores in 21 states are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/dec\/25\/wal-marts-higher-skilled-employees-get-pinched-abs\/\">taking money away from salaries normally paid to higher skilled worker<\/a>s \u2013 including those who work their way up from minimum-wage \u2013 to pay for minimum wage hikes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new laws have prompted Wal-Mart to adjust the minimum premium paid to its higher-skilled employees and combine its lowest three pay grades, Reuters reported Wednesday <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Sapping initiative to pay for feel good social canoodling? <\/p>\n<p>All is proceeding according to plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart stores in 21 states are taking money away from salaries normally paid to higher skilled workers \u2013 including those who work their way up from minimum-wage \u2013 to pay for minimum wage hikes: The new laws have prompted Wal-Mart to adjust the minimum premium paid to its higher-skilled employees and combine its lowest three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entitled-america","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50105,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50102\/revisions\/50105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}