Reflection from Katrena, Defiance College

If major corporations like Walmart have so much money that they’re required to donate each year, why don’t they raise the wages of their minimum-wage employees and provide health, vision, and dental coverage for them? And it’s not just about money. It’s about earning a living wage: being able, finally, to make ends meet. It’s about not resenting your employer because they put so much stress on you, and don’t even pay you enough practically to drive back and forth to work; they avoid giving you benefits for as long as they can. Maybe if corporations invested the millions back into their workforce, we wouldn’t have so many people in “need” that charities would have to “help.”