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Tag: Wal-Mart
50 Years of Gutting America’s Middle Class
Walmart's explosive growth has gutted two key pillars of the American middle class: small businesses and well-paid manufacturing jobs.
Walmart’s Unsurprising Bribes
Bribery is as American as apple pie.
United States of Walmart
Buy two congressmen, get one free.
Walmart’s Arrogance
The Walmex bribery scandal casts a spotlight on the retail giant's many offenses in North America.
Resolve to Keep Science Experiments off Your Dinner Table in 2012
Engineered crops have steadily increased over the past 15 years, despite the lack of independent research on their long-term effects on human health and the environment.
The 10 Greediest Americans of 2011
Whether they manage football pageants or Ford Motor Co., these guys remind us how much needs to change, economically and politically, in 2012 and beyond.
Big Corporation, Tiny Heart
Walmart is displaying its incredibly shriveled ethical center by whacking the already meager health care benefits that hundreds of thousands of its workers count on.