Top ten, in no specific order..
1. The average supermarket employee makes $10.35 an hour, the average Wal-Mart salesclerk makes $8.23/hr.
2. There are no unions in Wal-Mart, at all.
3. As of 2005, Wal-Mart was the second largest corporation in the world (following closely behind Exxon Mobil).
4. Wal-Mart drives down retail wages approx. $3 billion every year and reduces the take home pay of retail works $4.7 billion/yr.
5. The Walton family has given less than one percent of their wealth to charity, compared to Bill Gates who has given fifty-eight percent of his wealth to charity.
6. Tax payers feel the burden of the supercenter too- Wal-Mart costs taxpayers $456 million yearly soley through the use of health care programs.
7. The average work week is 34 hrs, resulting in only $17,114 per month, which is significantly below the poverty line for a family of four.
8. Wal-Mart employs approximately 1.7 million people worldwide and makes $312 billion dollars in sales per year
9. The corporation maintains a 24/7 anti-union hotline as part of their efforts to prevent organization.
10. The national average super center/grocery store employees pay 16% of health care costs; Wal-Mart employees pay 42% .
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Like I said on your last post, I think now that you've done the hard part and found statistics and evidence for your thesis, writing the essay should flow a lot better. Don't forget to elaborate on ones like number 2, just to drive home your point. Good luck!
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