The Real Wal-Mart Wages and Turnover

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Tampa     Today in Tampa, WARN, the community alliance dealing with Wal-Mart’s expansion and corporate citizenship in Florida, and the Wal-Mart Workers Association, released the results of a ground breaking study on the real wages paid to Wal-Mart workers in Florida and the turnover rates for the company throughout the state. We had made a straightforward freedom …

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But for Fate

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New Orleans     Thinking about Walter Zumpe and life a million years ago before time, took me back to the old, Gentilly neighborhood where I lived in junior and senior high school in New Orleans. I stood in front of the now quiet, desolate block and took a couple of pictures of the Zumpe house with a …

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Close to Home

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New Orleans     We were raised in a neighborhood in Gentilly called Oak Park for no especially good reason. When my dad’s company transferred us from an old field in Irvine, Kentucky to New Orleans, we first lived on the West Bank, but then we became one of the first families to open up this area, filled …

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