{"id":103,"date":"2021-04-29T14:48:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T14:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/?p=103"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:02:10","slug":"5-1-billion-mcdonalds-sales-1st-qtr-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"$5.1 Billion: McDonald&#8217;s Sales 1st Qtr 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According the Wall Street Journal, April 29, 2021, &#8220;McDonald&#8217;s reported total sales of $5.1 billion for the quarter, up 9% from the previous year&#8217;s period and more than that quarter in 2019 as well.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shares of McDonald&#8217;s rose 1% to $234<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s time to boycott McDonald&#8217;s until they guarantee a livable wage to their employees.  If they have to raise their prices then that simply represents the true cost of a hamburger and if they can&#8217;t stay in business, too bad.  In the short term there might be job losses but it&#8217;s time to shift the economy and jobs away from business who count on government assistant programs to keep their workers buoyed.  It&#8217;s time for public corporations to shift their primary concern to their workers rather than their shareholders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According the Wall Street Journal, April 29, 2021, &#8220;McDonald&#8217;s reported total sales of $5.1 billion for the quarter, up 9% from the previous year&#8217;s period and more than that quarter in 2019 as well.&#8221; Shares of McDonald&#8217;s rose 1% to $234 It&#8217;s time to boycott McDonald&#8217;s until they guarantee a livable wage to their employees. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/?p=103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$5.1 Billion: McDonald&#8217;s Sales 1st Qtr 2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livablewage.org\/wp_sys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}