{"id":1186,"date":"2004-05-04T05:44:23","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T05:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/05\/04\/society_problems_caused_by_wal-mart.html"},"modified":"2004-05-04T05:44:23","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T05:44:23","slug":"society_problems_caused_by_wal-mart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/05\/04\/society_problems_caused_by_wal-mart.html","title":{"rendered":"society problems caused by Wal-Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1580082319\/danah-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1580082319.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>Wal-Mart is one of the few common features of every small town in the States. There are hundreds of them on I-80 alone (having used their immense parking lots to turn around a 17ft Uhaul towing a car last year).  Over and over again, i heard locals defend the Wal-Marts as a cheap option for getting access to needed goods.  There was often slippage in their arguments, as they would tell me that it&#8217;s now the only option since the introduction of the Wal-Mart meant the closing of every possible competitor.<\/p>\n<p>Wal-Mart makes billions of dollars every year.  But at such an aweful expense.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/cox04202004.html\">Check out these statistics<\/a> (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/atreegrowsinbrooklyn.blogspot.com\/2004_04_01_atreegrowsinbrooklyn_archive.html#108302550128310754\">Chloe<\/a>!!).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample (but read the full list):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>$420,750: Annual cost to U.S. taxpayers of a single 200-employee  Wal-Mart store, because of support required for underpaid workers  &#8212; including subsidized school lunches, food stamps, housing  credits, tax credits, energy assistance, and health care<\/p>\n<p>45%:  Proportion of her entire annual wage that a single Wal-Mart employee  might have to pay out-of-pocket before collecting any benefits  from the company-sponsored health plan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wal-Mart is one of the few common features of every small town in the States. There are hundreds of them on I-80 alone (having used their immense parking lots to turn around a 17ft Uhaul towing a car last year). Over and over again, i heard locals defend the Wal-Marts as a cheap option for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}