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BIG-BOX SWINDLE
The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
(Beacon Press)
Big-Box Swindle illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising pollution and diminished civic engagement. The book is far more than a critique, however. The second half offers an inspiring account of how a growing number of communities and independent businesses are effectively countering the chains and rebuilding their local economies.
The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
(Beacon Press)
Big-Box Swindle illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising pollution and diminished civic engagement. The book is far more than a critique, however. The second half offers an inspiring account of how a growing number of communities and independent businesses are effectively countering the chains and rebuilding their local economies.
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President George Walker Bush
The White House
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Dear President Bush:
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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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Dear President Bush:
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Marshall County Farm Bureau board members, presenters and volunteers greeted approximately 400 Marshalltown fourth grade students to the Marshall County Farm Bureau’s sixth annual Farm to Table day.
The event was held at the Central Iowa Fairgrounds in Marshalltown on Sept 14.
Eight different stations were set up around the fairgrounds where students rotated to learn about Iowa agriculture.
The event was held at the Central Iowa Fairgrounds in Marshalltown on Sept 14.
Eight different stations were set up around the fairgrounds where students rotated to learn about Iowa agriculture.
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Food stamps, local foods and simple credit-card swipe technology come together this weekend at one of Missoula's downtown farmers markets.
The Clark Fork River Market, near the Clark Fork River under the Higgins Avenue Bridge, is setting up a swipe machine to accept food stamps, the first Montana market to do so since food stamps became “EBT” cards. EBT stands for electronic benefit transfer, the credit-card style way that food stamp money is now distributed.
Niraja Golightly is thrilled.
The Clark Fork River Market, near the Clark Fork River under the Higgins Avenue Bridge, is setting up a swipe machine to accept food stamps, the first Montana market to do so since food stamps became “EBT” cards. EBT stands for electronic benefit transfer, the credit-card style way that food stamp money is now distributed.
Niraja Golightly is thrilled.
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Was the 2004 Election Stolen? by Steve Freeman and Joel Bleifuss is one of the best books I've read on election fraud. We're offering it at $17.95, and every sale benefits PDA. Its reviewed on our site by one of Amazon.coms best book critics -- OK, he's my husband -- who, after years of hearing Election Protection! at the dinner table, decided to digest the facts for himself. He says this book made it
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The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy http://www.iatp.org/ is proud to
present a festival of five highly acclaimed documentaries that expose threats
to sustainability from runaway globalizationÃand show alternatives for a better
world.
MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL http://www.iatp.org/sustainfestival/
MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL http://www.iatp.org/sustainfestival/
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Counties with a Wal-Mart store experience slower growth in their standard of living than those without the world’s largest retailer, according to a preliminary study released Tuesday.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln study compared growth in household income from 1979 to 2002 in 19 Nebraska counties with Wal-Marts to 74 without, after controlling for other economic variables that determine household income.
Critics of the retailer say Wal-Mart often comes into small towns and drives main street stores out of business.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln study compared growth in household income from 1979 to 2002 in 19 Nebraska counties with Wal-Marts to 74 without, after controlling for other economic variables that determine household income.
Critics of the retailer say Wal-Mart often comes into small towns and drives main street stores out of business.
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Contact:
Nu Wexler,
(202) 557-7461 or
(202) 739-1020
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. EDT Wal-Mart will announce what it has billed as a "major health care initiative," at a Tampa, Fla. event with senior executives, elected officials and "other special guests." They'll have a tremendous opportunity to make dramatic changes to their inadequate employee health care plan, a problem that a recent Wal-Mart job posting described as "the biggest single reputation issue Wal-Mart faces."
Nu Wexler,
(202) 557-7461 or
(202) 739-1020
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. EDT Wal-Mart will announce what it has billed as a "major health care initiative," at a Tampa, Fla. event with senior executives, elected officials and "other special guests." They'll have a tremendous opportunity to make dramatic changes to their inadequate employee health care plan, a problem that a recent Wal-Mart job posting described as "the biggest single reputation issue Wal-Mart faces."
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ene Shock sits on his green four-wheeler, gazing over his pasture toward the Mission Mountains. I’m a few feet away, surrounded by a ring of Shock’s cows, who are intently gazing at me. One cow gets in my face and sniffs. “That’s Mary,” says Shock, who says he’ll hang on to her and breed her next year. “Her half sisters and brothers are what go to Montana Natural Beef.”
Last year, Montana Natural Beef, a Ronan-based company that markets beef raised in the Mission Valley, sold roughly $37,000 of that beef to UM.
Last year, Montana Natural Beef, a Ronan-based company that markets beef raised in the Mission Valley, sold roughly $37,000 of that beef to UM.
