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    Walmart, the world's largest private employer, is boosting its starting salary for U.S. workers to $11 an hour, giving a one-time cash bonus of up to $1,000 to eligible employees and expanding its maternity and parental leave benefits.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Business/w…

    • don't be too quick to praise. WM keeps most of their workers under 30 hours/week. part-timers aren't 'eligible' for any kind of benefitsGnash
    • most of their employees still qualify for social assistanceGnash
    • $11 not even a living wageutopian
    • a temporary pay bump while they work on replacing cashiers with robots. win!dorf
    • it's news. i didn't say it was good or bad.imbecile
    • So extreme poverty wage to shit poor. Nice. Nice.monospaced
    • (sorry imbecile, didn't mean to suggest anything)Gnash
    • good news everyone!imbecile
    • lolGnash
    • Nothing compared to the tax money they save.monospaced
    • meh, we're all tumbling head long into
      an automated online utopia with dispersed distribution points, sit back and enjoy the show...
      robotron3k
    • robotard, ONCE AGAIN, with a pointless, idiotic comment that only exposes his bitter, senseless core ... his only faculty left is to deflect and bitchmonospaced

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