Walmart raises minimum wage for American workers because of GOP tax bill

A Walmart employee.
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On Thursday, Walmart announced that it would raise its minimum wage for its hourly workers in the U.S., citing the recent Republican tax reform bill as the catalyst. The company's U.S. employees will, starting in February, earn a minimum of $11 an hour, Reuters reports.

Walmart is the world's largest private employer and retains more than a million hourly employees in the United States.

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Reuters notes that AT&T, Boeing, and Wells Fargo have made similar pledges after President Trump signed the Republican tax bill, which cut the corporate tax rate by 14 percent.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.