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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -M.Twain
In This Issue
Workers get snappy new uniforms, and have to pay for them
Why Wal-Mart is still one down and dirty corporation
Also in this issue:
- GEORGE W’S WAR LEGACY
- FIVE-DAY WORKWEEK FOR CONGRESS
- STATEHOUSES FLIP TO DEMOCRATS
- Wal-Mart’s White House Sweetheart
- The Revolving Door
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August's Lowdown
Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive
Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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STATEHOUSES FLIP TO DEMOCRATS
In last Lowdown we reported that the elections yielded seven new Democratic governors— but we got the totals wrong. (Thanks to the eagle-eyed Lowdowners who alerted us.) With 13 Democratic Governors re-elected, the Dems now have 28 statehouses to Republicans 22. And the final count on state legislatures is that Democrats have a majority in both chambers in 23 states (up from 19), Repubs in 15, and in 11 states control of the chambers is split.