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September 04, 2006
Labor Day Funnies
It usually goes without saying that the middle-class doesn't understand the plight of the working poor. Having recently escaped (by all of one paycheck!) the clutches of poverty myself, I feel that I have some insight in these matters. Working at a retail job means a 1500 calorie per day diet. This is a problem that needs fixing...
Before the problem can be fixed, though, we need to do a better job educating people as to the existence of the problem. I didn't realize how deep the ignorance until I read a comment over at Random Jottings which assumed that WalMart workers started at US$9 per hour! For unskilled workers!
It took me a few minutes to get my laughter under control, as you might imagine. I've had some friends work for WalMart-- none of them has ever made that much. A quick search tells me that WalMart starts between US$6.25 and US$7 per hour. With luck, this bit of ignorance has now been corrected, and we can all go back to figuring out how to make US$9/hr the actual starting wage at WalMart, and similar companies...
Posted by Andrew at September 4, 2006 11:20 PM