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Sunday, March 06, 2005

Spread The Facts

Low Prices At What Cost?
Join the Wal-Mart Fact Checker Network. You can spread the truth about Wal-Mart, track the facts on your own interactive map, and enter to win $1000 in health care. A few tidbits from the site:
  • "Wal-Mart sales clerks made an average of $8.23 an hour—or $13,861 a year—in 2001. That's nearly $800 below the federal poverty line for a family of three.
  • In Georgia, Wal-Mart employees are six times more likely to rely on state-provided health care for their children than are employees of any other large company.
  • Reliance on public assistance programs in California by Wal-Mart workers costs the state's taxpayers an estimated $86 million annually."
    But heck, it's not just Wal-Mart that engages in outsourcing. Today's NY Times has an interesting (frightening?) story about how the government outsources torture
    • || JM, 10:04 AM

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