D.C. Wages Fight With Walmart Over Higher Wages

Name: D.C. Wages Fight With Walmart Over Higher Wages
Uploaded: 2013-07-18T00:39:25Z
Duration: P644S
Description: When the D.C. City Council approved legislation requiring large retailers to pay hourly rates 50 percent higher than local minimum wage, Walmart threatened to abandon planned stores. Judy Woodruff gets two views on living wage from David Madland of the Center for American Progress and Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal.

Clip: 07/17/2013 | 10m 44s

When the D.C. City Council approved legislation requiring large retailers to pay hourly rates 50 percent higher than local minimum wage, Walmart threatened to abandon planned stores. Judy Woodruff gets two views on living wage from David Madland of the Center for American Progress and Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal.

Aired: 07/17/13

Rating: NR

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