“ Wal-Mart pays some of its employees such a low wage that they must subsist on a range of government assistance programs. In effect, therefore, taxpayers subsidize the profits of Wal-Mart shareholders, at a rate of $2,000 per employee per year.
Democratic Staff of House Comm. on Education and the Workforce (report by Rep. George Miller), Everyday Low Wages: The Hidden Price We Pay for Wal-Mart, 8 (Feb. 16, 2004).
About Me
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
—Emily Dickinson
