{"id":297,"date":"2005-11-05T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T20:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2019-01-15T21:02:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T21:02:14","slug":"shocker-wal-mart-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/05\/shocker-wal-mart-is-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocker: Wal-Mart is Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In unsurprising news, 9 prominent economists say that Wal-Mart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000103&amp;sid=aFfX5fJN_6bI&amp;refer=us\">&#8220;causes wages to fall for workers in towns where it operates, depresses pay for unskilled laborers and increases Medicaid costs.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What <em>is<\/em> surprising is that Wal-Mart paid these people to conduct the study. It is part of a campaign to address criticism of the wages, health care benefits, and workplace policies for its 1.2 million employees. Wal-Mart has recently hired several former political strategists to help the company improve its image because lets face it, Wal-Mart&#8217;s image sucks right now (rightfully so).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In unsurprising news, 9 prominent economists say that Wal-Mart &#8220;causes wages to fall for workers in towns where it operates, depresses pay for unskilled laborers and increases Medicaid costs.&#8221; What is surprising is that Wal-Mart paid these people to conduct the study. It is part of a campaign to address criticism of the wages, health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[294,684],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-healthcare","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4087,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/4087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}