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b_b  ·  4165 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Every 300-employee WalMart consumes between $900k and $1.2m in public benefits per year.

    Costco has come under analyst pressure to lower wages and boost profit, but the company’s CFO has thus far refused to do so. Its bottom line, however, seems strong: Profits rose by 19 percent to $459 million last quarter.

So many things wrong with the US economic system are summed up in this paragraph.