If Walmart Paid a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up?

In the series "The Secret Life of a Food Stamp," Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps. What's more, the wages of many workers at these stores are so low that the workers themselves qualify for food stamps—which the employees then often spend at those big-box stores.
Grace Slick's lyrics for White Rabbit employ imagery from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with a hookah smoking caterpiller and lots of other otherworldly effects.
Gee, the bully has trouble tolerating a few comic barbs. Who'da thunk it?
Wage theft ... it's not clownish, not right, and not legal. Which is why McDonald's is being sued.
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