{"id":36693,"date":"2013-07-19T09:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T16:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36693"},"modified":"2013-07-19T09:46:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T16:46:36","slug":"mcdonalds-launches-web-tool-to-help-workers-manage-money-they-dont-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/19\/mcdonalds-launches-web-tool-to-help-workers-manage-money-they-dont-make\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonalds Launches Web Tool To Help Workers Manage Money They Don&#8217;t Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130719Uprising\/2013_07_19_mcdonalds.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130719Uprising\/2013_07_19_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/christopher_drumgold.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>McDonald\u2019s Corporation has come under fire for launching a new website in conjunction with Visa, to help its employees manage their money. <\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the online budgeting tool, well-meaning as it may be, is quite revealing \u2013 it assumes that McDonalds&#8217; employees work a second job to make ends meet. <\/p>\n<p>And it shows how clueless company executives are about the cost of living for ordinary Americans. <\/p>\n<p>The budgeting tool uses examples of expenses that are \u2013 well \u2013 out of the realm of reality. For example, health insurance costing $20 a month. Worse, expenses like groceries, child care, gas, or clothing aren\u2019t even accounted for \u2013 perhaps McDonalds considers these luxuries!<\/p>\n<p>To hear what employees themselves actually think of the so-called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicalmoneyskills.com\/mcdonalds\/budgetJournal\/budgetJournal.php\">Practical Money Skills Budget Journal<\/a>,\u201d we turn to Christopher Drumgold, a McDonald\u2019s worker in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Christopher Drumgold, a McDonald\u2019s worker in Detroit<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/detroit15.org\">Click here<\/a> to learn more about the campaign that Christopher is working on in Detroit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s Corporation has come under fire for launching a new website in conjunction with Visa, to help its employees manage their money. The problem is that the online budgeting tool, well-meaning as it may be, is quite revealing \u2013 it assumes that McDonalds&#8217; employees work a second job to make ends meet. And it shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36704,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36693\/revisions\/36704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}