You may have heard this morning that Walmart chose to raise many of its employees’ base salaries to $10/hour, which is of course above the federal minimum wage.
We don’t want to call this a “stunt,” per se, but it is a big move for the country’s largest employer. Here’s how it happened:
First, the press release went out to targeted journalists, who shared it with no link:
BREAKING: WalMart is raising its starting, minimum wage to $9 an hour.
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