Starbucks Offers More Proof That Obamacare Is Helping The Economy

Starbucks Offers More Proof That Obamacare Is Helping The Economy
Baristas work behind the counter at the newly-inaugurated Starbucks outlet in New Delhi on February 6, 2013. Starbucks, the world's biggest coffee chain, launched its first outlet in New Delhi on Wednesday with an aim to expand its reach to customers across India. AFP PHOTO/ SAJJAD HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)
Baristas work behind the counter at the newly-inaugurated Starbucks outlet in New Delhi on February 6, 2013. Starbucks, the world's biggest coffee chain, launched its first outlet in New Delhi on Wednesday with an aim to expand its reach to customers across India. AFP PHOTO/ SAJJAD HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)

In The Atlantic’s May issue, Amanda Ripley, a senior fellow at the Emerson Collective, reports on Starbucks’s partnership with Arizona State University that allows Starbucks employees to receive a significant discount on tuition for online classes. One question that Ripley wonders throughout the article is why Starbucks offered this benefit. It could eventually cost the company tens of millions of dollars a year. Was Starbucks willing to incur those annual costs to give its workers “access to the American dream,” as Schultz said?

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