New Study Finds Wal-Mart’s Miserly Wages Cost Taxpayers
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/new-study-finds-walmarts-miserly-wages-cost-taxpayers/California taxpayers are spending $86 million a year providing healthcare and other public assistance to the state’s 44,000 Wal-Mart employees, according to a new study by UC Berkeley’s Institute for Industrial Relations. The study, "Hidden Cost of Wal-Mart Jobs," found that the average Wal-Mart worker required $730 in taxpayer-funded healthcare and $1,222 in other forms of assistance, such as food stamps and subsidized housing, to get by. Continue reading
