Walmart to give 500,000 workers a raise

Walmart will pay current employees at least $10 an hour within the next year, the company announced Thursday.The nation’s largest private sector employer said 500,000 full-time and part-time associates at Walmart U.S. stores and Sam’s Clubs will receive pay raises in the first half of the current fiscal year that will take them to at least $9 an hour, which will be $1.75 an hour above the current federal minimum wage.By Feb. 1 of next year, their pay will rise to at least $10 an hour.

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