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We should favor herding Americans back to the cities through whatever policy measures will achieve that goal.
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David Callahan
On Wednesday, Walmart workers called out or walked off the job at seven stores in Dallas, according to OUR Walmart activists, the group that has been organizing strikes and protests against the company. The company says that these were not independent actions but the result of activists being bussed
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Bryce Covert
Walmart is coming under fire for shortchanging its own employees.
In the media
Bernice Napach
Come Black Friday (which for many big retailers has become a two-day affair starting on Thanksgiving), Walmart will again be facing strikes and protests from workers upset with the corporation's low pay.
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Pat Garafalo
At the new Walmart superstore in the Chinatown district of Los Angeles, a Thanksgiving turkey costs a little over $30 (£19). The shop is kind enough to distribute ready-made holiday shopping lists to its customers, reminding them to buy cornbread mix and cranberry sauce, ground ginger and pumpkin
In the media
Tim Walker
Walmart has gotten a lot of bad press this week over news of an Ohio store holding a food drive for its own workers, who were unable to buy Thanksgiving groceries on the retail giant's paltry wages. The store managers deserve credit for their thoughtfulness, but wouldn't it be better if Walmart
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Josh Harkinson
Thanksgiving time at Wal-Mart is the public relations gift that keeps on giving for the labor movement.
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Matthew Fleischer

The causes of Detroit's bankruptcy and what the city's emergency manager can do to turn it around.

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Wallace C. Turbeville
Wal-Mart could afford to hike every U.S. employee’s hourly wage to at least $14.89 an hour just by not repurchasing its own stock, according to a new report from the progressive think tank Demos.
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Josh Eidelson
Walmart, enmeshed in a debate over low wages highlighted by a food drive for employees at a Canton store, can significantly raise the salaries of sales clerks and other workers without having to find additional money for the pay hikes, says a research brief by a think tank.
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Olivera Perkins