Walmart, the largest private U.S. employer with 1.4 million employees, 1 has been widely criticized for shifting the costs of its low-wage model onto taxpayers. Hourly employees receive low-level if not poverty wages and inadequate benefits and many of them are forced to work part-time, leaving thousands with little choice but to rely on public assistance. While Walmart is shortchanging its employees, it is lavishing excessive pay on its executives.
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June 24, 2014