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Walmart’s Profit: $16 billion

Wealth of Walmart owners (the Waltons): $144 billion (as much as 42% of Americans combined!)

Most Walmart Workers Annual Wage: Less than $25,000

Subsidies and tax breaks that benefited Walmart & the Waltons: $7 billion

Even if you don’t work or shop at Walmart, the truth is that you’re still living in a Walmart economy and paying for their low-road business model. Share your story of trying to get by in a Walmart economy here.

As Walmart workers gear up for Walmart’s annual shareholders’ meeting, they will be holding actions all across the country. At protests across the United States, including in front of the home ofWalmart owner and heir, Rob Walton, Walmart workers and their supporters will build a wall that represents the true face of the unfair and ever-increasing global divide. On it, workers will place images that represent the struggle to get by in the Walmart economy.

It’s time we speak out against a Walmart economy that is hurting the world. We cannot let the 1%  hide in their gated communities without having to see the reality the rest of us face every day. We want to pull back the veil of shame that surrounds economic struggles and show that inequality–driven by families like the Waltons–is something working people are facing on a global scale.

We want to hear what the Walmart economy means to you. Check out this website and then click “share your story” at the right to post your story: 

This is our chance to tell the true story of trying to get by in a Walmart economy. Don’t let Walmart workers stand alone.