Could this be the reason that Hillary won’t join the ‘fight for fifteen’? You betcha! Walmart’s wages are so low that they have cost taxpayers 6.2 billion in public assistance!
UPDATE: Walmart overwhelmingly favors republicans with donations, but they make an exception with Hillary
The report also includes figures on contributions related to the issue that is perhaps closest to the company’s heart: workers’ wages. The report says that from 2005 to 2012, 59 percent of the Walmart PAC's contributions to House members who voted on the minimum wage increase went to candidates who opposed the increase, while 95 percent of the Waltons' contributions went to candidates who opposed the increase.
"This shows you the real Walmart," Bertha Lewis, an advocate associated with Making Change at Walmart, said. "They put their money where their ideology is."