WAL-MART is isn't going anywhere - 3 W-M DC stores are already under construction, and 3 more are in the planning stage...This is the DC Council's bill under consideration:
The bill would require retailers with sales of $1 billion or more and operating in spaces of 75,000 square feet or larger to pay their employees no less than $12.50/hour. The city's minimum wage is $8.25/hour.
"...the empty desks of 20 children marked absent today, and forever"
-Poet Richard Blanco at President Obama's Inauguration, 01/21/13