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Wal-Mart workers make just over $8 an hour, and they must pay more than a third of their health insurance premium if they choose to take the company's insurance. That means just about half of them don't choose to take the health insurance because they can't afford it.

Liza Featherstone

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Liza Featherstone
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: April 21
Journalist
Boston metropolitan area
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