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New York Times Editorial - October 3, 2006
The Chair Out From Under Them
Wal-Mart is famous for trimming, squeezing, and slashing costs relentlessly. While the company would like the world to focus on the benefits derived from its low prices, we cannot ignore how the nation’s largest private employer often grinds up its hourly workers in the same machine. (more)

BusinessWeek Online - September 28, 2006
Wal-Mart Doesn't Discount Politicians
No rollback here: The No. 1 retailer has ramped up political contributions— especially at state and local levels. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has legions of close friends, collected over decades as a Hollywood box office draw and rising political star. Yet few may consider him as dear as Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), which gave the Republican governor $22,300 on May 15, and earlier contributed $200,000 for initiatives Schwarzenegger had supported. In addition, the company has given $300,000 to the state GOP and additional funds to local politicians, making California the biggest recipient of Wal-Mart's political largesse (more)

BusinessWeek Online - September 27, 2006
Wal-Mart Find More Foreign Violations
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. found a higher rate of severe violations at foreign factories last year as it stepped up inspections for labor and environmental standards in more than 60 countries where it buys clothes, toys, shoes and other products, it said in a report (more)

MSN Money May 2005 by the Christian Science Monitor
Is shopping at Wal-Mart immoral?
In the early 1990s, business owners on the island of Kodiak, Alaska, hired a consultant to analyze how much they'd be hurt by a proposed Wal-Mart. But in gathering data at their request, Kenneth Stone also discovered how the store was apt to help another local group: the poor (more)