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Starvation wages are real; I started my day reading this lie.

👉🏼”Walmart is not being subsidized because their staff gets Welfare whether they work or not” 👈🏻

That is not how minimum wage is supposed to work & it is only one of many subsidies.

cnbc.com/2020/11/19/wal…
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Corporate America blames the employee for poverty wages.

“They would be on Welfare anyway.”

Lobbying has kept the minimum wage artificially low, so let’s take a look at the truth about workers & wages & who has their hands out.
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cnn.com/2019/06/14/eco…
A $15 an hour minimum wage is not a handout; childcare subsidies are not a handout. They are an effort to bring equity in an atmosphere of hostility directed at the worker.

It’s far less than it should be if it were adjusted for all the years Congress failed to act.

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