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Political Factoid
- Walmart is the world's third largest public
corporation.
- Walmart is the largest retailer in the world
and the largest U.S. retail grocer.
- Walmart is the largest private U.S. employer.
- Walmart had $15 billion net profit in 2012.
- Walmart employs 2.2 million people worldwide.
- Walmart has a policy of hiring mostly
temporary workers to avoid paying for
their health care.
- Walmart CEO is paid $11,000.00 per hour.
- Walmart has highest CEO-to-worker pay ratio
of any Fortune 100 company.
- Walmart employees are some of the
lowest paid.
- Walmart employees are not paid a living
wage.
- Walmart workers get sicker, and
consequently, spend more out-of-
pocket for health care, than does
the average American.
- Walmart has a business game plan to
pay less than livable wages.
- Walmart dumps a load on local governments
of about $1 million per store per year.
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