$WMT will give half-million employees pay raises http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wal-mart-posts-earnings-1-133142855.html … This may be as big as Henry Ford's 1914 decision to double daily minimum pay to $5...but with potentially some over all boost to US economic growth. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/jan-5-1914-henry-ford-implements-5-a-day-wage/?_r=0