The Nation—“America’s leading progressive print and online magazine”—recently encouraged its readers to sign an open letter demanding that Walmart increase wages to $12/hour and this article called our company one of the “biggest abusers of low-wage labor.”
In an ironic twist, ProPublica recently reported that starting this fall, “interns at the Nation Institute will be paid minimum wage for the first time in the history of the 30-year-old program.” As ProPublica noted, The Nation has been paying its full-time interns a weekly stipend of $150 per week—less than the current federal minimum wage rate of $7.25 per hour.
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I'll leave you with this last tidbit of economic insight, from the director of project that oversees The Nation's internship program:
“We are not yet certain how this will work out long term, but for the fall we are anticipating hiring ten interns rather than twelve.”
One could forgive Walmart for being tempted to reply with something along the lines of: "No shit."