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In reply to the discussion: What Is The Point Of Risking Your Life In The Military To Protect The Right Of Billionaires To [View all]TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)on. Meanwhile they are reducing and eliminating public sector jobs where a lot of former vets and women I might add have been working. The Walmart scenario where they are providing job at starvation wages for vets is an insult to their service really. Walmart jobs are NOT career jobs but only "pin" money jobs. Most are part time and pay no health benefits. Their ploy tell the vets to go to the VA.
Besides that I believe the Walmart and other corporate businesses get tax credits for hiring veterans and other certain groups. I used to have to certify tax credits for a program called "The Targeted Jobs Tax Credit". I was getting in people to certify that if the company got its tax credit they would be paying on a couple of dollars an hour. Once the credit was over the worker mysteriously lost their job. There were workers who came into my office for their 2nd, 3rd or 4th credit with another low paying employer. The made so little at the previous employer they qualified for yet another federal tax credit for the next employer.
It was a real pain. In fact low wage employers would come to the employer service and have us go out to new restaurant, retail store or other low wage entity to ID tax credit eligible applicants so we could certify them for the federal tax credit.
Walmart is just hiring vets for PR and as I understand it will get a federal tax break for doing it and it WILL NOT IMPROVE THE VET'S LIFE ONE BIT.