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Wal-Mart Could Help Eliminate Poverty By Sharing The Wealth… With Its Own Employees (Video)
November 27, 2014
Heartbreaking letter from LaRanda Jackson, a 20-year-old Wal-Mart employee who posted it to Alice Walton (heiress to Sam Walton’s Wal-Mart empire) on Wal-Mart’s “Hunger Games” Tumblr page.
I’m writing to you because it hurts to see the pain in my younger brothers’ eyes when we can’t afford food to fill their stomachs. Sure, they see that I’m working hard, taking the bus an hour each way to get to work at Walmart. Even though they know that things are tight right now, that our mom is often too sick to work, they just can’t understand why last year on Thanksgiving they didn’t get turkey and gravy like other kids their age.
But hey, what can Alice do? How could she help? All she did was inherit tons (literally) of money. Well, Walton family, listen to activist economist Robert Reich (above).
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Tags: Black Friday, boycott, food drive, How 1.4M Americans Could Get a Raise Right Now, LaRanda Jackson, living wage, minimum wage, OUR Walmart, OURWalmart, poverty, poverty line, Protest, Robert Reich, starvation, Wal-Mart, Walmart | 
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