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Originally Posted by Robbie
Anyway...do you have a link to the statistics on Walmart employees needing "public assistance"??? I was unaware that folks who had jobs could even do that.
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Lots of TV news stories …. Here are a couple from print.
"Green told the crowded church how in her tenure with Wal-Mart, she's received two raises and is now a manager. She makes $9 an hour ($1 above the laughably-low California minimum wage). She pulled from her pocket three cards she claimed most Wal-Mart employees at her store have: a 10-percent Wal-Mart employee discount card, her employee ID and her EBT card (what used to be called food stamps).
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Read more: The Herald-Sun - Let s kick Wal Mart off welfare
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_s...rt-off-welfare
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A 2012 article but quoting a study from 2004 that by now has gotten much worse. In 2004 Walmart workers’ reliance on public assistance programs cost California taxpayers $86 million annually
"The U.C. Berkeley Labor Center crunched the numbers in 2004 and found that Walmart workers’ reliance on public assistance programs cost California taxpayers $86 million annually. The families of Walmart workers used 38 percent more non-health benefits—food stamps, subsidized school lunches—than the families of employees of other large retailers."
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pres...rt_mar12.shtml
Figure in these assistance programs and then think if anyone saved money shopping at the nations largest retailer.
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