LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
HUFFINGTON
10.06.13
Disposable
Workers
N THIS WEEK’S ISSUE, we take a close
look at the booming
dollar-store business, where the labor comes almost as cheap as the off-brand
laundry detergent. A new dollar
store opens every six hours in
America. Unfortunately, the jobs
they bring look to be some of the
worst our economy has to offer.
Dave Jamieson speaks to
dollar-store workers across the
country, finding that the major
players in the industry — Dollar
General, Dollar Tree and Family
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Dollar — have grown their businesses by squeezing all they can
out of their employees. The hours
are brutal, the pay is low, and
workers who happen to get hurt
have a way of suddenly losing
their jobs.
And those workers who rise to
become dollar-store managers
too often find their lives become
even more difficult as a result.
Dawn Hughey, a former Dollar
General employee, told Dave that
dollar-store managers work up to
80 hours a week but aren’t eli-
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