Study Shows the Benefits of Walmart Education Effort: Retail Giant's Live Better U Program Is Proving Its Value. Lumina Issue Paper

A study from Lumina Foundation and Walmart shows how Walmart's Live Better U employee education initiative improves outcomes for associates and for Walmart. The report focuses on measurable impact for participating associates and includes disaggregated outcomes by race and ethnicity. Specifically, it shows how Walmart's employees of color use and benefit from the program alongside white colleagues. The analysis narrows in on Walmart's hourly associates, who constitute 94 percent of its total workforce. [Additional assistance for this research was provided by Guild Education.]