A onetime cash bonus to eligible employees walmart says it will expand maternity and parental leave benefits been a couple years since they took wages up. Before a lot of their competitors, took it to 9, now to 11 when youre talking this many workers, it gets your attention. I think we have to be careful, though. 1. 5 million workers in the u. S this wage hike from 10 an hour up to 11, thats nice, but walmarts wages are that low to begin with and weve been wondering for a long time with the tightness in the labor market when are the increases coming starting wage, to be clear. Not every worker makes that, but walmart is infamous for having workers on public assistance, so how much praise do they deserve, plus this 400 million worth of bonuses, which is great, one time, but lets not pretend this is some huge, amazing, generous thing. Theres been a lot of criticism of this company for underpaying workers for a long time. But some money is better than no money, right . Yeah, but you need