Even though Wal-Mart is a colossal money maker, it barely pays it’s workers enough to live comforably, forcing employees to go on food stamps, Medicaid and other social welfare programs.
Wal-Mart pulls in $36 million dollars per hour – being the largest seller of food in the world. Yet, they don’t take care of their employees.
Through your tax dollars you are, in essence, handing a Wal-Mart cashier your money but not even getting so much as an empty bag in return.
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Minimum wage is not meant to be a career salary, work your way up to a higher level and pay increase or catch on with a higher paying company
Yup… that was my point and thank you for explaining it in detail 🙂 What they are saying about Wal-Mart could be said for any retailer or fast food joint or any business that pays less than $10 an hour average. What the article does NOT mention is that I’ve read articles talking about how Wal-Mart essentially gives the lesser off a 20% raise by consistently having prices that are often 20% lower than the competition on essential items. What else the article doesn’t mention is how much MORE would it cost the government if Wal-Mart didn’t even exist? Wal-Mart gives jobs to 1.4 million people. Yes, if Wal-Mart didn’t exist other retailers like Target would be larger but still… they PAY 1.4 MILLION people to work… but that doesn’t count for anything. I hate misleading articles like this.
Just more corruption in the system
1) wall mart doesn’t receive $2.6 billion from the government.
2) no one is forced to work at Walmart, they are free to find work elsewhere
3) do you voluntary pay more for items than you have to? Then why should an employer pay more for labor than they have to???
4) whoever wrote this needs to stick to things they understand, and economics isn’t it.
Wanting to Raise the minimum wage shows you know less about economics than the person who wrote this article.
No one forces anyone to work at WalMart…
And I’m assuming you don’t take any of the deductions you are due when you file taxes? Or are you a hypocrite?
They aren’t being paid anything. The author is an economic illiterate.
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That’s a crime to use taxpayers money this way