Wal-Mart invades academia! Now, even Wal-Mart has its own conference in the academic world -- held for the first time this past April at UC Santa Barbara. "The range of subjects covered in the conference papers to be published early next year testifies to Wal-Mart's impact both on the transfer of goods from third-world sweatshops to suburban shopping malls in the US and on local communities where its stores are located". Isn't this what I've been saying for three years now? One of the conference papers is entitled Everyday Low Wages: The Hidden Price We All Pay for Wal-Mart and talks about how Wal-Mart's ridiculously low wages force some to go on welfare. Told you so...
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