Keep Walmart out of the Bronx
The Issue
Walmart is one of the largest employers not only in the United States, but the world with $405 billion in annual revenue. 90% of Americans live within 15 minutes of a Walmart store. Sadly, they are not good neighbors.
- Almost two-thirds of Walmart employees earn less than $25,000 a year.
- The average Walmart employee makes just $8.81 per hour, less than $15,000 annually.
- Walmart has killed almost 200,000 jobs between 2001-2006 alone. 80% of their products are now manufactured in China.
- Each store costs taxpayers $1 million on average in subsidies.
- Approxinametly 80% of Walmart employees use food stamps to put food on the table.
- Walmart comes at a cost of $6.2 billion, which is paid by taxpayers in benefits that their employees need in order to suirvive.
The Bronx can't afford Walmart!
Shannon Lee GilstadPetition StarterShannon Lee Gilstad is a bilingual non-profit professional in the Bronx with a B.A. in Sociology from Lehman College and an M.S. in Urban Affairs from Hunter College and is looking to embark on her next challenge! She is Founder of the on-line Bronx activism group, Bronx Movers and Shakers.
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The Issue
Walmart is one of the largest employers not only in the United States, but the world with $405 billion in annual revenue. 90% of Americans live within 15 minutes of a Walmart store. Sadly, they are not good neighbors.
- Almost two-thirds of Walmart employees earn less than $25,000 a year.
- The average Walmart employee makes just $8.81 per hour, less than $15,000 annually.
- Walmart has killed almost 200,000 jobs between 2001-2006 alone. 80% of their products are now manufactured in China.
- Each store costs taxpayers $1 million on average in subsidies.
- Approxinametly 80% of Walmart employees use food stamps to put food on the table.
- Walmart comes at a cost of $6.2 billion, which is paid by taxpayers in benefits that their employees need in order to suirvive.
The Bronx can't afford Walmart!
Shannon Lee GilstadPetition StarterShannon Lee Gilstad is a bilingual non-profit professional in the Bronx with a B.A. in Sociology from Lehman College and an M.S. in Urban Affairs from Hunter College and is looking to embark on her next challenge! She is Founder of the on-line Bronx activism group, Bronx Movers and Shakers.
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Petition created on June 5, 2014