While most of America's businesses are struggling through the recession, Wal-Mart and the Walton Family are raking in billions in profit. There's nothing wrong with making money - but the rest of us are getting poorer as a result. Whether it is the low wages the Waltons pay, the taxes...

This week, Wal-Mart introduced Mike Duke as its new CEO. Regrettably, there is little evidence that he will bring new ideas with him. Like Lee Scott, David Glass and Sam Walton before him -- Mike Duke is a company man who has been with Wal-Mart since 1995. For the past...

Sometimes symbols appear unexpectedly. Jdimytai Damour, a temporary Wal-Mart worker, became a symbol to millions of low-wage workers last Friday when he died a needless death because Wal-Mart failed to take the necessary precautions to protect him. He became a symbol of those workers quietly yielding to unsafe working conditions...

"Wal-Mart Moms" or "Wal-Mart Women" are the new "it" demographic this election cycle. That may be good news for Wal-Mart shoppers, but it is not good news for Wal-Mart.

Like soccer moms and security moms in prior elections, pollsters believe that Wal-Mart Moms will play a key role in choosing...

It is football season again and fans in communities across the country are turning out for high school games. They are probably wearing sweatshirts, t-shirts and other gear to cheer their local team. Unfortunately, if those fans bought their clothing from their local Walmart store, their team is not getting...

Wal-Mart will do anything to keep its employees down.

A story today from the Wall Street Journal lays bare the company's plan to intimidate employees and discourage support of Democratic candidates. Using threats of fewer jobs and lost wages, Wal-Mart managers tried to convince employees not only of the...

Wal-Mart is raising wages for its employees -- in China, that is. Yes, the labor union representing Wal-Mart's Chinese workforce won yet another fight against Wal-Mart, successfully negotiating for an 8 percent raise for 2008 and 2009 as well as setting terms for paid vacation, social security, and overtime....

You might think that Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott learned a lesson from the beating he took a few months ago in the media over the Deborah Shank case, but you'd be wrong. Wal-Mart now seems determined to keep disability benefits from all Americans, not merely its own employees. To make...

It's Wal-Mart Week in Bentonville, Arkansas and the retail giant is throwing its annual celebration for 20,000 of its workers and shareholders, complete with concerts by stars like Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, and Journey. All this serves to distract shareholders from Wal-Mart's failure to address the chronic problems that negatively...

It's tax rebate time, and no one is hungrier for the tax rebate checks arriving in mailboxes today than Wal-Mart. The retailer is advertising tax-rebate sales and has offered to cash the checks for free -- all in hopes that consumers will spend their newfound money at Wal-Mart stores. But...

New video footage of Wal-Mart manager meetings released by the Center for Public Integrity and aired on Dan Rather Reports Tuesday evening, provide a rare and disturbing glimpse into the private culture of the world's largest company.

The footage features several Wal-Mart executives at various meetings...

Wal-Mart's dirty laundry is getting more global exposure today just a week after the Debbie Shank story. It has not been a good month for Wal-Mart public relations. To use a sports term, these are turnovers, and they expose the weaknesses of Wal-Mart's high priced image.

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Debbie Shank used to stock shelves at night for Wal-Mart so she could spend time in the afternoons with her three sons. Now she lives in a nursing home, requires around-the-clock medical care and owes Wal-Mart almost $500,000.

Last November, I wrote about this 52 year-old Missouri woman...

In January, on a conference call with reporters, Wal-Mart proudly announced that it convinced less than three percent more of its workforce to join the company health plan during the last three years. When asked why more people did not take advantage of the benefits, Linda Dillman, executive vice president...

Last summer, a Newsweek article entitled "Teens at Work" brought to light Wal-Mart's questionable use of teenaged laborers at the retailer's stores in Mexico. The article explained how Wal-Mart takes advantage of a legal loophole...

Economists worry over the decline of the American consumer, but what about the decline of the American worker?

It's a story told in towns across America: middle-class jobs are vanishing. Where once there were steel mills and auto plants, abandoned factories and Wal-Mart stores now stand. Companies that...

When Missouri Wal-Mart employee Deborah Shank was left brain damaged after a tragic collision with a semi-trailer truck seven years ago, her Wal-Mart health care plan paid her initial medical bills. As it became evident that Deborah would need a lifetime of professional care for her debilitating condition, her family...

What do Wal-Mart's employees have to be thankful for this season? Perhaps not as much as they would like. The company's health care plan is still far short...

Wal-Mart has spent the last year making grand promises about its commitment to the environment. Talk about green initiatives and supplier changes grabbed the attention of environmentalists and financial analysts alike. In press conferences and company meetings, Wal-Mart executives agreed with what others had been saying for years: For better...

There's more than one reason to be wary of toys on the shelves of your local Wal-Mart. After dozens of recalls over the last few months, consumers have grown to distrust toy manufacturers and justly so. Lead paint, faulty manufacturing, poor materials and dangerous components have made toy shopping a...