Walmart and the Minimum Wage Campaign

This just in from David Christiansen, CKCPJ Co-Chair:

In the March 2, 2015 issue of the New York Times, Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman offers his assessment of the recent move by Walmart to raise the wages of half a million of its workers.

See the NYT Op-Ed online here: "Walmart's Visible Hand"

The bottom line: “Extreme inequality and the falling fortunes of America’s workers are a choice, not a destiny imposed by the gods of the market. And we can change that choice if we want to.”