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"You can't have a mass movement without the masses."--Fred Harris, senator from Oklahoma
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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March's Lowdown
Giving corporations more power to buy politicians of their choice
"For too long," wailed the senator in a heart-tugging cry for justice, "some in this country have been deprived of full participation in the political process."
Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, has never been mistaken for a bleeding-heart liberal, so you can rest assured that his anguish over inequality did not concern the disenfranchisement of minorities or poor people--or any kind of people, for that matter. No, it is the tragic political deprivation faced by America's corporations that moved Mitch to such an outpouring of woe.
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The Revolving Door
Despite its rock-bottom wages, Wal-Mart has extraordinarily high labor costs. Because employees don’t stay, the company must constantly recruit and train replacements—a costly process. Nearly threefourths of its employees quit in their first year, and the company-wide turnover rate for its 1.3 million workers is 50% each year.