Wal-Mart Costs Washington Taxpayers $18,073,326 - Let's Make it Stop

Stop the Wal-Mart Health Care Crisis Despite Wal-Mart claiming only 5% of its workforce is on public health care assistance, based on the available data, Wal-Mart has an average of 13 percent of its workforce on public health care assistance. The 13 percent figure is 3.25 times higher than the national average of 4 percent for all employers and 2.6 times higher than the 5 percent average Wal-Mart states publicly. It's time for all of us to stop the Wal-Mart health care crisis>> Read the Petition Text Spread the word - tell your friends! Last year, despite obscene profits, Wal-Mart failed to provide health care for 4,938 of its Washington workers and their dependents. Instead, these employees were forced to rely on government programs costing Washington taxpayers over $18,073,326. It's time to stop this corporate abuse>> http://go.care2.com/e/JEA/jZ/JXLF At the end of 2005, Wal-Mart ranked #2 on the Fortune 500 with sales of $312 billion and net profits of $11.2 billion, and was America's largest employer with 1.39 million workers. Yet Wal-Mart still failed to provide company health care to over 300,000 of its employees and their dependents. Wal-Mart's greedy ways left nearly 1 out of every 2 children of its workers either uninsured or on public assistance at a cost of $1.4 billion to taxpayers. Wal-Mart ranks #1, among all companies in America, with the highest total number of employees without company health care insurance and is the #1 abuser of taxpayer funded public health care in 18 of the 19 states where statewide data has been reported. You have the power to hold corporations responsible for their actions and to stop this blatant corporate abuse. Help hold Wal-Mart accountable and improve the health care for 4,938 workers in Washington by sending a letter to Governor Gregoire >> http://go.care2.com/e/JEA/jZ/JXLF Sincerely, Michael Lawley, Care2 and ThePetitionSite team P.S. All information contained in this newsletter is available in Wake Up Wal-Mart's new report "America Pays, Wal-Mart Saves" - available at www.wakeupwalmart.com.

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