Food In The News: Starbucks Strikes Back With a Plan to Hire 10,000 Refugees!

Food In The News: Starbucks Strikes Back With a Plan to Hire 10,000 Refugees!

The International Coffee Chain Has a Radical Plan to Stand Up to Donald Trump!

When President Donald J. Trump signed his immigration ban that prevented citizens of several Muslim countries from entering the United States, the reaction was swift and strong – both here in the U.S. and around the world. Many people denounced it, and some companies worried how they would manage their international workforce, with some of their employees living or traveling here but technically still citizens of one of the Muslim countries in question.

Not surprisingly, Starbucks promptly announced a plan to not only hire people who are citizens of these countries, but to hire refugees, the very people hurt most by Trump's ban. Starbucks has repeatedly advocated for equality and justice, and this was no exception. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz told his partners that the company will hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years, and in the U.S. will focus on hiring people who have worked with U.S. troops.

To learn more about the groundbreaking plan from Starbucks, please continue to Page (2) for the full story.



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35 Comments

  1. Joe Marek
    Joe Marek January 31, 09:36

    Hire some veterans instead!

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  2. Cindy Holmes
    Cindy Holmes January 31, 11:46

    Why not hire veterans instead! So ridiculous. Stupid move Starbucks!

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  3. Karin Westendorf
    Karin Westendorf January 31, 11:54

    #boycottstarbucks

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  4. Frances Hill Ferrell
    Frances Hill Ferrell January 31, 13:18

    Strike them off your list !!

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  5. Deborah Marshall
    Deborah Marshall January 31, 14:04

    good, now the line will be shorter

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  6. Sandy Mull Ritter
    Sandy Mull Ritter January 31, 14:30

    Wouldn’t paid the price. You made your money do now you don’t care if you lose business. Moron

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  7. Shantal Hutchinson
    Shantal Hutchinson January 31, 14:54

    will never visit another star bucks again

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  8. Christine Cuthbert
    Christine Cuthbert January 31, 15:17

    boycot them

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  9. Donna Lewis Clark
    Donna Lewis Clark January 31, 15:50

    Won’t ever spend on penny there

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  10. Georgette Depalma
    Georgette Depalma January 31, 16:16

    I didn’t like there coffee anyway

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  11. Dyanne Dulmes
    Dyanne Dulmes January 31, 17:05

    UN-American

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  12. Pete Young
    Pete Young January 31, 17:20

    Go someone else for your coffee, service stations usually have good coffee at a fraction of Starbucks price

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  13. Thomas Hendricks
    Thomas Hendricks January 31, 17:25

    Panera just gained more customers ..good job Starbucks #morons

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  14. Regina Yard
    Regina Yard January 31, 17:42

    Hire vets, disabled, adolescents, geez.

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  15. Peggy Moul
    Peggy Moul January 31, 17:46

    I never spent my hard earned money for their overpriced drinks and never will now!!!!!!

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  16. Tom Deb McGovern
    Tom Deb McGovern January 31, 17:48

    Just wondering why now and not done before…?and exactly…why not veteran’s?..we never go to starbucks ..never get our order correct anyway….d..

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  17. Linda Moreland
    Linda Moreland January 31, 17:55

    I am so glad I do not drink coffee, if I did it would not be Starbucks. So they hate Americans.

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  18. Shantal Hutchinson
    Shantal Hutchinson January 31, 18:07

    I would feel differently had you ran this same “campaign” for our Vets and citizens in the past or even now..but instead you step out and say you will hire these refugees which I agree needs help and a chance but what you have done seems like a betrayal and slap in the face to the American citizen..you went about this all the wrong way and made the wrong kind of example …shame shame shame Starbucks

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  19. Bonnie Matthews
    Bonnie Matthews January 31, 18:07

    Mc Donald’s does too.

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  20. Bonnie Matthews
    Bonnie Matthews January 31, 18:09

    Hopefully Trump will take care of this 🙂

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  21. Debbie J. Hibbard
    Debbie J. Hibbard January 31, 19:11

    So ill be discriminated against if Ii applied? Lawsuits. So the United States will be paying unemployment benefits to more.

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  22. Linda McMillin Bowman
    Linda McMillin Bowman January 31, 20:44

    Boycott-why not vets—seniors or welfare people who want to work?

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  23. Ec Kelley
    Ec Kelley January 31, 21:01

    I never buy from you….now I never will.

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  24. David Hansen
    David Hansen January 31, 21:19

    You didn’t like education either, huh?

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  25. LaDonna Huggins
    LaDonna Huggins January 31, 21:22

    Good luck with that !

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  26. Linda Clough
    Linda Clough January 31, 21:35

    Done with Starbucks.

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  27. Josh Mitchell
    Josh Mitchell January 31, 21:37

    I like here coffee. Sometimes, I enjoy it anywhere.

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  28. Dorothy Guiffredo Buick
    Dorothy Guiffredo Buick January 31, 22:15

    Bye bye Starbucks…McD has better coffee anyway!

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  29. Sandy Race
    Sandy Race February 01, 00:08

    I don’t agree with what they are doing, but most of these post are plain ignorant!!!

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  30. Paula Woodruff
    Paula Woodruff February 01, 00:45

    They should hire 100 Americans or leave

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  31. Dallas Proveaux
    Dallas Proveaux February 01, 01:38

    Americans strike back by not buying Starbucks overpriced swill.

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  32. Troy Bengel
    Troy Bengel February 01, 03:33

    Boycott their a*s

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  33. JS Dom M Rincon
    JS Dom M Rincon February 01, 04:15

    END STARSHITS NOW

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  34. Chris Holden
    Chris Holden February 01, 18:21

    VETERANS AND HOMELESS FIRST

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