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Originally posted by ladygreek
The unfortunate thing is that the current welfare system requires that you get a job within five years. If the only job you can get is at a company that pays ultra-low wages, (and for example, the majority of your pay barely pays for housing, child care, and transportation) you are stuck in the cycle. I guess that is why I am less judgemental than I used to be. Working in social services I see the struggles that many earnest people, trying to get on their feet, go through. And I know that companies like WalMart do not help the situation.
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This sounds like the issue is more closely related to the national minimum wage than Walmart. I just don't see why Walmart is the main villian when there are plenty of other companies that pay $7 or less. At least at Walmart, employees can aspire to management or some type of pay increase over time. Several of their top managers started at or near the bottom of the totem pole.