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To: Road Walker who wrote (232536)	5/13/2005 10:44:25 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (4) of 1574680

"The average full-time Wal-Mart employee is paid only about $17,000 a year." Just think of it as your tax dollars at work... Main Findings: • Reliance by Wal-Mart workers on public assistance programs in California comes at a cost to the taxpayers of an estimated $86 million annually; this is comprised of $32 million in health related expenses and $54 million in other assistance. • The families of Wal-Mart employees in California utilize an estimated 40 percent more in taxpayer-funded health care than the average for families of all large retail employees. • The families of Wal-Mart employees use an estimated 38 percent more in other (non-health care) public assistance programs (such as food stamps, Earned Income Tax Credit, subsidized school lunches, and subsidized housing) than the average for families of all large retail employees. • If other large California retailers adopted Wal-Mart’s wage and benefits standards, it would cost taxpayers an additional $410 million a year in public assistance to employees. laborcenter.berkeley.edu Of course, the answer is simple. Large retailers adopt Walmart policies, like they have a choice, and the public assistance programs get cut off... Heaven forbid that companies actually pay a living wage or provide benefits.

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