(January 11, 2018 at 12:50 pm)Grandizer Wrote: And of course, even more bonuses to the big boys (that's who the tax cuts are really for).
$11 minimum hourly rate is a joke, and not much of a jump from $10.
The real joke is that we take a $1 hourly raise at Walmart to be an improvement worth noting. It says more about the sad state of our society that we are told to be grateful for such an insignificant boon.
I can't speak generally about Walmart, but in my hometown, it's rare for an employee to get more than 20 hours weekly. So basically folks are getting 20 bucks a week; most aren't even eligible for benefits. Sure, it's good for the people who profit from it, but it sure does emphasize the trickle in "trickle-down economics."
I'm not impressed. In no tangible way have citizens lives benefitted by improving the shittiest jobs around by a modest increment. This is no metric by which to gauge opportunity.
