Retailers keeping most of the windfall from tax cuts
January 22, 2018
Years of slow wage growth and record profits followed by a massive corporate tax cut have enabled businesses including retailers such as Walmart to raise pay for hourly workers and hand out one-time bonuses. The vast majority of the gains, however, are not going to employees but to employers and investors.
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