Check out the New York Times magazine cover story on Andy Stern, SEIU President.
News Coverage
Read the Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning series on Wal-Mart
This famous article from Fast Company delves into “The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know,” and reports, “The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost.”
Read Business Week’s 2003 cover story, which asks “Is Wal-Mart Too Powerful?
Read the Washington Post’s investigation into Wal-Mart’s overseas practices.
This fall, an article in Fortune Magazine examined the heirs to the Walton family fortune.
See the results of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s investigation into Wal-Mart’s disproportionate use of the Peach State’s low income child heath insurance plan.
Research and Analysis
This study, done by the Labor Center at the University of California at Berkeley, examines “the hidden costs of Wal-Mart jobs.”
When the minority staff on the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce investigated Wal-Mart, they found, “Wal-Mart’s rock bottom wages and benefits cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year in basic housing, medical, childcare, and energy needs that the retailer fails to properly cover for its employees.” Read the full report here (PDF).
See the Pennsylvania State University study(PDF) of the links between Wal-Mart and poverty.
Wal-Mart has prepared an extensive website detailing information about its company and its employees. Visit Walmartfacts.com to learn the company’s side of the story.
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