[dragonwriter]

> Why does every employer pay poverty wages

Most employers of relatively unskilled labor pay poverty wages because they can get the labor they are seeking at that price, and they haven't identified ways to get sufficiently better returns paying more to justify higher pay.

> and what can one of the biggest (or biggest) private employers in America do about it?

Why should they?

I'd rather just tax capital earnings as income, tax high-end income more, and fund a UBI than expect employers to act irrationally as public benefit agencies.