Comments on: Walmart’s Hunger Games

By: fN

fN — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:27:50 +0000

Does anyone else see the problem is that this woman only works a part-time $10/hr job, but it’s to support 6 people?!?!?

The problem’s NOT the $10/hr job.

By: Jean Kautt

Jean Kautt — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:30:21 +0000

Amen, Linda.

By: MA

MA — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:21:44 +0000

At $10.10 per hour, even working a steady 40 hours per week, she would likely be taking home less than $1500 per month (assuming standard deductions). Let’s say her rent is only half of that – $750/mo. That leaves about $25/day for *everything* else she needs to pay for: food, clothing, electricity, phone bill (’cause you can’t hold a job without a phone…), and that’s just the absolute bottom line essentials. It’s just not enough to support children on no matter how frugal she is. Minimum wage is really only suitable for employees who are claimed as a dependent on someone else’s tax return, not for primary wage earners.

By: ms.T

ms.T — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:29:35 +0000

People are so insensitive, you can’t say what circumstances are going to put one in a certain position in life. The haves can easily find the faults of the have nots. Whatever the circumstances are people need wages, hours and benefits. Big companies play with folk lives to keep their wealth. Selfishness and greed.in a court of law a situation could not be judging to that all the facts are placed for evidence. do not judge everyone the same. I do not work at Walmart I have a job that pays more than minimum wagebut there are times when I find myself struggling not because I’ve made a wrong decision but because life does that to you. Don’t judge everyone on the same basis it is unfair.

By: razorback013

razorback013 — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:26:31 +0000

You, the author and others like the author, are idiots. The Walton family does NOT own Walmart. Walmart is a public company owned by SHAREHOLDERS. Good luck with this one.
Also, wages are dependent on the surrounding environment. For example, the Walmarts in parts of North Dakota start out at $17.50/hour because there’s a high demand for labor.
it’s also important to note that the minimum wage isn’t designed to support a family. The point is so people have to develop skills and increase their knowledge so theg don’t have to work minimum wage jobs for their entire life.

By: sharon

sharon — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:29:21 +0000

Very well put. Thank you!

By: unCommonSense

unCommonSense — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:21:21 +0000

I wonder how fast humans would go extinct if the requirement for procreation was a college education and “good job”

FYI: This system is a false one. Now back on your hamster wheel.

By: David

David — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:50:44 +0000

Thank god someone with some common sense chimes in!!! We have become a country that wants , wants and wants. We seem unable to live within our means.

By: naomi

naomi — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:12:07 +0000

I worked at a CVS Pharmacy as a pharm. tech and was only making 9 an hour. And I am a single mother of three kids. I could make it on that so I have a problem feeling sorry for these workers who make 10 an hour and can’t make it. (Oh and yes I am college educated you have to go to school to be a pharm. tech and I am in school right now for my bachelors)

By: rd

rd — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 02:38:46 +0000

OK, this will be controversial. Why do women have children if they can’t afford to support them? Have all these single mothers not heard of birth control? If you don’t have a college education and a good job, forget having children.