{"id":133156,"date":"2013-01-07T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=133156"},"modified":"2013-01-07T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T15:00:23","slug":"raising-wages-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/01\/07\/raising-wages-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Wages Is Good For Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Article:<\/strong> <a>Why Raises For Walmart Workers Are Good For Everyone<\/a> by Josh Harkinson in Mother Jones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Text:<\/strong> Chances are you missed this particular bargain on Black Friday: Agree to spend 15 cents more on every shopping trip, and Walmart, Target, and other large retailers will agree to pay their workers at least $25,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>Big box retailers aren&#8217;t actually offering that deal, but a new study [1] by the liberal think tank Demos argues that it would be a great bargain for us all if they did. Increasing the average wage at large retailers from $21,000 to $25,000 would probably cost you less than $20 a year at the register yet lift some 1.5 million people out of poverty (including your cashier), create 100,000 new jobs, and boost GDP by some $13.5 billion. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Demos argues that retailers would benefit, despite higher labor costs, because their low-wage employees could suddenly afford to buy more of the basic necessities that they scan and load into plastic bags every day.<\/p>\n<p>If you are still wondering what&#8217;s in it for you, however, then consider this tidbit from Sasha Abramsky [2]:<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, a year in which Walmart reported $9.1 billion in profits, the retailer&#8217;s California employees collected $86 million in public assistance, according to researchers at the University of California-Berkeley. Other studies have revealed widespread use of publicly funded health care by Walmart employees in numerous states. In 2004, Democratic staffers of the House education and workforce committee calculated that each 200-employee Walmart store costs taxpayers an average of more than $400,000 a year, based on entitlements ranging from energy-assistance grants to Medicaid to food stamps to WIC\u2014the federal program that provides food to low-income women with children.<\/p>\n<p>Seen through this lens, the worker protests that erupted after Thanksgiving at Walmart locations around the country might end up being the best Black Friday specials of them all. Think of them as 2-for-1 coupons: Spend more on wages now, improve the economy AND save us all lots of tax money down the road\u2014money that we can spend instead on more important things, like, well, parachutes for our cats [3].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Article: Why Raises For Walmart Workers Are Good For Everyone by Josh Harkinson in Mother Jones. The Text: Chances are you missed this particular bargain on Black Friday: Agree to spend 15 cents more on every shopping trip, and Walmart, Target, and other large retailers will agree to pay their workers at least $25,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Raising Wages Is Good For Everyone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How paying 15 cents more the next time you go to Walmart could help lift 1.5 million people out of poverty.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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