Ending Hunger in America, 2014 Hunger Report Full Report | Page 39
INTRODUCTION
$12.78 an hour, but IBISWorld, an independent industry research firm, reports that workers
are paid $8.81 hourly on average.52 A study by the Committee on Education and the Workforce in the House of Representatives found that in Wisconsin, a typical Wal-Mart store costs
taxpayers $5,815 per employee because workers qualify for, and participate in, public safety
net programs.53
In the early twentieth century, Henry Ford realized that to build a larger market for the
cars he was producing, workers such as
the ones he employed in his factories
needed to earn enough money to afford
one. Ford doubled his workers’ wages,
and as factory workers everywhere
dreamed of coming to work at his plant,
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