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Wal-Mart Nation

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Michael Dudley
28 August 2003 - 8:00am

What does it mean to live in a country where Wal-mart -- the world's 19th largest economy -- is the nation's largest employer?

Where are the housing booms for the current generation of working-class Americans? Not around factories, that's for sure: We close factories in America today...You won't find any housing development radiating outward from the center of the new service and retail economy, either...the employer that now sets the standards for working-class America is Wal-Mart [which]doesn't pay its workers -- excuse me, "associates" -- enough to buy decent cars, let alone homes.

Full Story: In Wal-Mart's America
Source: The Washington Post, August 27, 2003
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