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Walmart is the biggest retailer in the world, and its millions of employees must deal with the public every day. We asked six Walmart workers about their shocking experiences on the job.
In 2013, the Democratic staff of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce released a report called Wal-Mart's The Low‐Wage Drag on Our Economy: Wal‐Mart's low wages and their effect on taxpayers and economic growth, which analyzed Walmart's effect on U.S. government finances and concluded that each Wal-Mart store with at ...
The film features archival footage of Walmart CEO Lee Scott praising the corporation at a large employee convention, intercut with interviews designed to undercut Scott's statements. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The documentary argues that Walmart underpays its workers, paying them an average of $17,000 per year (in 2005 dollars). [ 7 ]
Nearly 1 in 5 people in Africa are going hungry, the United Nations reported. Overall, about 3 out of 10 people across the world did not have consistent and reliable access to food globally in ...
People of color are employed in many industries susceptible to layoffs, and as a result of the pandemic, workers are experiencing high levels of unemployment. [ 114 ] [ 115 ] [ 116 ] Persons of color are more likely to work ‘essential’ jobs, such as grocery store clerks, or in healthcare, thus they are at a higher risk of exposure for ...
The result: The United Nations says that, at best, it will be able to raise enough money to help about 60% of the 307 million people it predicts will need humanitarian aid next year. The U.N. also ...
The essay in the 2018 GHI report examines forced migration and hunger—two closely intertwined challenges that affect some of the poorest and most conflict-ridden regions of the world. Globally, there are an estimated 68.5 million displaced people, including 40.0 million internally displaced people, 25.4 million refugees, and 3.1 million ...
About 735 million people worldwide faced chronic hunger in 2022, a figure much higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic and which threatens progress towards a global goal to end hunger by 2030 ...