Working at Walmart has been mentally and physically draining.

Many of my colleagues rely on public assistance

just to survive and some are homeless.

I feel like management sometimes puts aside safety

in order to be more productive.

We couldn't miss too many days even if it was a family emergency.

We barely had time for our family.

Favoritism and picking up on a lot of heavy stuff.

I'm constantly having to worry about whether or not

my hours are going to get cut.

Walmart is the largest company on the planet.

In 2018, it pulled in 500 billion dollars in

revenue. Its owners, the Waltons, are the richest family in the United States worth around $175 billion.

And it employs 2.2 million people.

That's about a million more than the entire US military.

And yet, as you just heard, Walmart's workers, you know, the people who make the entire thing possible,

are scraping by on some of the lowest wages in the country.

Many work multiple jobs or rely on food aid from the federal government.

They deal with unpredictable schedules, almost zero job security, and bad bosses.

And they're far from alone.

How in the richest country on earth did we let this happen?

Well, it's a story that stretches back to the early 20th century

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