By Windsor Genova
Local News Nashville, Feb 24, 2015
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Retail giant Walmart Inc. announced Thursday it will increase the minimum hourly wage of its half a million employees to $9 in April and to $10 next year.
"Walmart’s low wages have been a drag on the U.S. economy, with many of its employees relying on public assistance just to get by. We need to restore the eroded purchasing power of the federal minimum wage so that paying wages that workers can live on is not optional. That will boost business and strengthen our economy,” said Holly Sklar , chief executive of the Business for a Fair Minimum Wage ( BFMW ), according to The New York Times.
BFMW is a group of business leaders who advocate raising the minimum wage. ...