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Description: Amazon, the second largest private employer in the U.S., is raising the minimum wage for its full-time and temporary workers to $15 per hour.

Source: Finance.Yahoo.com – video report

Date: Sep 26, 2018

Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/real-reason-amazon-raising-minimum-wage-170807455.html

Questions for discussion:

  • What are the possible reasons for Amazon’s pay raise, according to the report?
  • What do you think is motivating management?
  • How has this affected the stock price?
  • Why do you think investors responded as they did?

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