Dollar Stores:  Sweetening Food, Sweating the Labor, Collecting the Cash   

Dollar Stores Organizing Rights Workers

            New Orleans     Dollar stores are now literally everywhere.  How can you miss them, especially in rural and lower-income areas?  It’s not easy.  There are 18,000 Dollar Generals, 16,162 Dollar Trees, and they own another 8,200 Family Dollars.  That’s 42,362 stores, and they’re still opening new ones as often as they can.  Driving an …

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