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Pace with the cost of living in the district apparently think aren't worried about people who work in fast-food restaurants, unionized grocery stores exempted or countless other businesses or for that matter about some of their own government employees who make less than $12.50 an hour. if conditions are so dire, why the four-year lag in compliance for existing retailers, that is, nonwalmart, covered by the measure? isn't that really the hypocrisy of this, if there was an exemption carved out, it's singling out walmart for punitive measure? >> look, it's not singling out walmart. there's a num...

Retailers who would will be affected, costco, home depot, they're already in the district and some pay higher wages than we require under the bill. you can quibble with the details and everyone you know could be paying a higher wage. that would be ultimately where to go. the big picture here, and steven's concern, is about any minimum wage, any effort to raise the wage that workers get paid, he would be opposed to. i think that's really what's important to understand is that worker working full time which most in many of the people like a walmart store would be should not be living in poverty....

"washington post" editorial, if we can put that up? "the post" took a position. here's what they said. from "the post" about what the city council had been proposing and has passed. the hubris of the large retailer accountability act is matched by its hypocrisy. counsel sill members who backed the measure claimed to only be looking out for d.c. workers struggling to keep pace with the cost of living in the district. apparently they aren't worried about people who live in fast food restaurants, the unionized grocery stores exempted or countless other businesses or for that matter some of their ...

Legislation forces large retailers like walmart to pay a minimum of $12.50 an hour. legislation targets walmart unfairly, it says. alex barron the regional manager for walmart wrote this week saying quote, we have said that this legislation is arbitrary and discriminatory and discourageds investment in washington. walmart is the largest employer in the country with more than 1.3 million workers and 4,005 stores. the company earned $17 billion in profits last year. and many walmart critics say that means they can and should pay their workers more. but should a city be able to force the company ...

Washington, d.c., area, oftentimes by the way in very undeveloped areas, poor areas that need the jobs that need the economic development. here's the problem with saying pay the people $12.50 an hour. those -- walmart is now saying they may not open up those stores. so it's not whether these workers have $12.50 an hour. these workers are going to get nothing because the store may not be there. >> the district residents have to go to virginia or maryland for the good. 2011 study by the all of california study at berkeley, walmart increased minimum wage for all employees in the u.s. to $12. one ...