Imagine being a single mother of 2 or 3 kids earning $14.00 an hour working at WalMart on a 28 to 32 hour work week. And then take away her SNAP benefits.
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Not on Oahu. Walmart minimum starting pay for cashier is $20 and going up in 2026. It is $19 in Hilo, just as is Target.
True.
Walmart reports that it has 4,498 employees in Hawaii. While Walmart does not break down the number of part time to full time of the total 4,498 employees for Hawaii, Walmart enacted a goal of having two thirds of its employees classed as full time. In Hawaii that would mean that 2,969 employees ae classed full time, with the remaining 1,529 employees classed part time.
Most of those 1,529 part time employees therefore do not qualify for health insurance coverage as required by The Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act.
Further, while no Hawaii specific information exists as to the number of full and part time Hawaii employees who also receive SNAP and/or Medicaid benefits, it is reported that Walmart is one of the nation's largest employer of employees who are SNAP and/or Medicaid recipients.
So, I have rephrased my question:
Imagine being a single mother of 2 or 3 kids earning $14.00 $20.00 an hour working at WalMart on a 28 to 32 or even a 40 hour work week. And then take away her SNAP and Medicaid benefits and add in all the other items as HOTPE points out.
You do the math.
As the saying goes, That math ain't mathing!
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Not on Oahu. Walmart minimum starting pay for cashier is $20 and going up in 2026. It is $19 in Hilo, just as is Target.
True.
Walmart reports that it has 4,498 employees in Hawaii. While Walmart does not break down the number of part time to full time of the total 4,498 employees for Hawaii, Walmart enacted a goal of having two thirds of its employees classed as full time. In Hawaii that would mean that 2,969 employees ae classed full time, with the remaining 1,529 employees classed part time.
Most of those 1,529 part time employees therefore do not qualify for health insurance coverage as required by The Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act.
Further, while no Hawaii specific information exists as to the number of full and part time Hawaii employees who also receive SNAP and/or Medicaid benefits, it is reported that Walmart is one of the nation's largest employer of employees who are SNAP and/or Medicaid recipients.
So, I have rephrased my question:
Imagine being a single mother of 2 or 3 kids earning $14.00 $20.00 an hour working at WalMart on a 28 to 32 or even a 40 hour work week. And then take away her SNAP and Medicaid benefits and add in all the other items as HOTPE points out.
You do the math.
As the saying goes, That math ain't mathing!