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Not make enough money to buy thanksgiving dinner on their own, and what's their solution? lord knows, it's not to pay those associates more. the average walmart employee makes only $8.81 per hour, which works out to be about $17,000 per year in take-home pay for a full-time employee, well below the federal poverty line of $23,000. their solution is certainly not to allow their workers to organize so that maybe they could have a voice in telling management what sort of working conditions, would help their families and help the productivity of the stores. and despite the fact that walmart is not...

In profit. and pays the average worker $8.81 an hour. >> so walmart's argument is that everyone has the opportunity to build the kind of career they want. and many associates advance to salaries much higher than $25,000. so why do organizations like our walmart even exist? >> well, the reason that the organizations exist in making change at walmart exists is because they're fundamentally not paying people for their work. one of the biggest subsidies that you and every taxpayer is paying for is the number of things walmart need because company won't pay them. food stamps and home savings and al...

>> they're trying to get their jobs back by labor day. walmart didn't respond. they deny that they fired employees as a result of the walkout. they say that's against their policies. they say that employees may be disciplined but they certainly wouldn't be fired. the real issue here among those who are going to gather out here today and at other locations, 15 different locations across the country, is that they believe that wages should be higher. this falls on the heels of what we most recently saw of fast food workers saying they need to have an increase in the wages. the effort will be out ...

President. there's different messages. we're looking at it from a the ceo of walmart makes $36 different perspective. >> congressman, if you look at what the republicans are saying, million this year, and the it's very similar to what some workers averaging $8.81 an hour. democrats are saying. aren't they in somewhat of a political box here, the politics of all of this this? >> mr. greenwald, do you think this is the start of something bigger when it comes to workers >> for some of them, they in america? we saw the fast-food workers, represent districts, they've now we're seeing the walmart be...

Has no right. they are just stirring up nothing for nothing. this is a made-up contrived situation. >> when you start working here, you know it's a minimum wage job, number one. you know that there's no benefits. no health benefits. that's why they have the low price. if you want them to have health benefits, than the price of everything is going to go up. who is that going to hurt? the consumer like me. i'm on a fixed income, retired. it's going to hurt me. >> according to a study done by the uc berkeley center, if every single walmart worker were paid a living wage of $12 an hour, up from an...