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Walmart

Always Low Wages: Meet the Billionaires Who Run Walmart

Get to know the CEOs, investors and consultants converging on Bentonville this week to decide the future of the company.
Josh Eidelson

Striking Janitors in Minnesota Demand an End to Retaliation
A forty-eight-hour strike Monday called on subcontractors to clear the way for Minneapolis and St. Paul retail janitors to form a union.
Alleen Brown
Posted Jun 12 2013 - 12:18pm
How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank
Battalions of regulatory lawyers burrowed deep in the federal bureaucracy to foil reform.
Gary Rivlin
Posted Apr 30 2013 - 6:13pm
Make the Road New York: Success Through 'Love and Agitation'
From stopping wage theft to organizing carwasheros, victories have come from meeting workers where they live.
Jane McAlevey
Posted May 21 2013 - 8:09pm

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Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You (Business, Media, Society)

Yahoo isn’t buying the blogging service for its profitability. It’s buying it for the advertising possibilities.

Robert Scheer
Lemoore, California
A California Town Bleeds From Sequestration's Cuts (US Politics, Budget Wars, Economic Policy)

Without its lifeline, a stream of federal aid, Lemoore is in crisis mode—and residents of all political stripes are united in outrage.

Gabriel Thompson
What Happened to Working-Class New York? (The Gilded City, Labor, Society)

As images of wealth abound, the struggles of ordinary workers have become invisible.

Joshua Freeman
Cash register
Meet the New Left: Small-Business Owners (Business)

Surveys demonstrate remarkably progressive attitudes on everything from taxation to regulation to the environment.

William Greider
Dollar bills
Stacking the Deck: The Phony 'Fix the Debt' Campaign (Budget Wars, Economic Policy, Conservatives and the American Right)

Pete Peterson’s $60 million push to sell corporate America’s ruthless austerity agenda.

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