Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance - from Forbes (!!!)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/#dc6d9e77cd84Walmart's low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing, according to a report published to coincide with Tax Day, April 15.
Americans for Tax Fairness, a coalition of 400 national and state-level progressive groups, made this estimate using data from a 2013 study by Democratic Staff of the U.S. Committee on Education and the Workforce.
"The study estimated the cost to Wisconsins taxpayers of Walmarts low wages and benefits, which often force workers to rely on various public assistance programs," reads the report, available in full here.
"It found that a single Walmart Supercenter cost taxpayers between $904,542 and $1.75 million per year, or between $3,015 and $5,815 on average for each of 300 workers."
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Police protection,the number one called for most Police Departments in Major Cities,is the Wal Mart Stores.
Top eight Police response calls in Vegas is Walmart Stores.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)When a Police Official asked the local Walmart People for funds to hire more Patrol Offerices,response was that's your problem,you want cheap goods,you pay for it.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Where did you find this? It's fascinating....well, horrifying...well, I don't quite know what to call it, but it's a hell of a bit of social psychology.
mercuryblues
(14,530 posts)I read a while back averaged it out to 1 million per store.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)raccoon
(31,110 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,302 posts)right Donald?
progressoid
(49,978 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)pockets, like higgher taxes, or higher prices, it means sombody else is payin!
Turbineguy
(37,317 posts)The Navy could get 2 new ships for that kind of money.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)lame54
(35,284 posts)LisaM
(27,801 posts)I'm not saying that most of the points are still valid - they may be - but it's two and a half years old.
raccoon
(31,110 posts)from their own bootstraps??? you mean the 99% are SUBSIDIZING them?
Doesn't that make them TAKERS instead of "job creators?"
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Disgusting.
lostnfound
(16,173 posts)Welcome to free market ideology in the new world.
I know! They can sell their organs!