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1. The Wallmart model

Mon Sep 2, 2013, 11:59 AM

Sep 2013

Wal-Mart's poverty wages force employees to rely on $2.66 billion in government help every year, or about $420,000 per store. In state after state, Wal-Mart employees are the top recipients of Medicaid. As many as 80 percent of workers in Wal-Mart stores use food stamps.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/10/1141724/-Walmart-fuels-inequality-epidemic-taking-advantage-of-our-safety-net

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The Wallmart model edhopper Sep 2013 #1

A single Wal-Mart Supercenter cost taxpayers $904,542 per year FreakinDJ Sep 2013 #2

I fear, like bank reform or healthcare edhopper Sep 2013 #3

+1000 well said nt Dreamer Tatum Sep 2013 #4

yes! That is what is happening, wake-up America dem in texas Sep 2013 #5

I agree of course, but the reason senseandsensibility Sep 2013 #6