My time at Walmart: Why we need serious welfare reform
Posted Dec. 14, 2011, at 10:20 a.m.
Christine Rousselle of Scarborough spent two summers working as a cashier at Walmart. In a recent blog post, she lays out her experiences and objections to the current welfare system.
“I spent hours upon hours toiling away at a register, scanning, bagging, and dealing with questionable clientele,” she writes. “These were all expected parts of the job, and I was OK with it. What I didn’t expect to be part of my job at Walmart was to witness massive amounts of welfare fraud and abuse.”
