<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">This is an interesting development. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">No matter how you cut it, its becoming increasingly important that Corporations become good citizens. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">How do we define a Good Corporate Citizen? That in my opinion is still very fluid and will define corporate behaviour going forward. For now unfortunately for Amazon this will be defined by the court of public opinion and although the jury is still not in things are not looking very good for Amazon.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 10:36 PM WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/bernie-sanders-introduces-the-bezos-act-slamming-amazon-low-wages.html" target="_blank">https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/bernie-sanders-introduces-the-bezos-act-slamming-amazon-low-wages.html</a><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"<span style="color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:18.4px">Sen. Bernie Sanders' </span><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/29/amazon-bernie-sanders-claims-are-inaccurate-and-misleading.html" style="font-family:'lyon regular';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:18.4px;color:rgb(32,119,182);outline:none" target="_blank">criticism of Amazon</a><span style="color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:18.4px"> peaked Wednesday as he and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., </span><a href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/stop-bezos-act-2018?id=C2E88AC5-C629-4680-8F8D-9EE74F343560&download=1&inline=file" style="font-family:'lyon regular';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:18.4px;color:rgb(32,119,182);outline:none" target="_blank">introduced legislation</a><span style="color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:18.4px"> to tax corporations for every dollar that their low-wage workers receive in government health-care benefits or food stamps.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:20px;color:rgb(76,71,68);font-family:'proxima nova semi bold';font-size:18.4px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular'">The bill, pointedly called the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies, or BEZOS, Act, is aimed at shaming companies like <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=AMZN" style="color:rgb(32,119,182);outline:none" target="_blank">Amazon</a>and <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=WMT" style="color:rgb(32,119,182);outline:none" target="_blank">Walmart</a>, whose workers rely on public assistance.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular'">For months, Sanders has targeted Amazon, juxtaposing the wealth of CEO Jeff Bezos <a href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/get-billionaires-off-welfare-remarks?inline=file" style="color:rgb(32,119,182);outline:none" target="_blank">with reports</a> that Amazon warehouse workers are paid less than industry averages and rely on food stamps.</p></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 15px;width:300px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(204,214,219);padding:0px 0px 13px;color:rgb(76,71,68);font-family:'proxima nova semi bold';font-size:18.4px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><img src="https://fm-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/img/editorial/2018/05/01/105175385-3ED4-BL-0501BernieSandersV2.600x400.jpg?v=1525199954" style="display:block;height:0px;max-height:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;min-width:100%;width:0px;margin:auto;padding:0px!important;border:none!important"></div><div style="margin-bottom:20px;color:rgb(76,71,68);font-family:'proxima nova semi bold';font-size:18.4px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular'">Bezos is the richest man in the world, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/04/heres-what-it-will-take-for-bezos-to-become-the-first-trillionaire.html" style="color:rgb(32,119,182);outline:none" target="_blank">with a net worth of more than $168 billion</a>.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular'">"Our legislation gives large, profitable employers a choice: Pay workers a living wage or pay for the public assistance programs their low-wage employees are forced to depend upon," Sanders <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttT5zXq3DgI" style="color:rgb(32,119,182);outline:none" target="_blank">said of the proposed law.</a></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular'">For example, if an Amazon worker received $2,000 in food stamps, Amazon would be taxed $2,000 to cover that cost.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular'">Amazon has previously called the Vermont independent's claims about working conditions in its fulfillment centers <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/29/amazon-bernie-sanders-claims-are-inaccurate-and-misleading.html" style="color:rgb(32,119,182);outline:none" target="_blank">"inaccurate and misleading</a>" and a spokesperson declined to further comment on the bill."</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular'"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular'"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular'"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular'">Be blessed.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(66,72,88);font-family:'lyon regular'">Regards/Wangari</p></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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