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cstanleytech

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2. Retailers such as Walmart, Target, Publix and Krogers could afford to pay even more to bring

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Nov 18, 2021, 09:49 AM

Nov 2021

their workers pay to an area that restores the same buying power they had 40+ years ago but they still refuse to do so as $15 is well below that comparable area.
All the companies would have to do to afford it would be to trim the amount their largest shareholders are getting a bit and 99.9% of those shareholders will still earn millions in profit from the stock.

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