Tag: Wal-Mart

• Corporate Welfare.9: Markets and Chains

  Today I’m posting a link to an article from the blog CivilEats.com by Adrien Schless-Meier called “Why Grocery Store Workers Are Making Less While Big Chains Make More.”  It’s a topic on my mind because one of the songs on the record I’m working on is about the economics of supermarkets.  The song is called “King Piggly…

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  July 22, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Corporate Welfare, Economics, Film, Music, Work In Progress

  Adrien Schless-Meier, Bread & Circus, Cambridge, civileats.com, corporate welfare, Films, Food Justice, King Piggly Wiggly, Publix, Raj Patel, Rindge Towers, Target, The Wrestler, Trader Joe’s, Upcoming Projects, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods

• Corporate Welfare.7: Walton Welfare

  Tens of thousands of protestors participated in some 1,500 strikes initiated by the organization OURWalmart against the largest private employer in the country yesterday, which of course was Black Friday, known as the “Super Bowl of Shopping” in this country.  To mark the occasion, Amy Goodman interviewed Catherine Reutschlin, a policy analyst at Demos who…

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  November 30, 2013

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Corporate Welfare, Series of posts

  A Higher Wage Is Possible, Amy Goodman, Black Friday, Catherine Reutschlin, Demos, Economics, profit margins, Wal-Mart