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Good news and bad news from Wal-Mart.


Good news and bad news from Wal-Mart Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. . The good news is that the company plans to offer health-savings accounts to its employees. The more consumers use HSAs, the more transparent and the lower health-care prices should become. The bad news is that the company's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  also came out for an increase in the minimum wage. We don't don't  

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A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts.
 mind when Wal-Mart outcompetes mom-'n'-pop stores, which often pay lower wages than it does. But it should not be able to recruit the federal government to help it drive them out of business. Wal-Mart's recent decisions confirm that it is folly folly

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 to expect corporations to act on the basis of philosophical consistency--and that they are more likely to promote the public good when they stick to their own business than when they lobby government.
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Title Annotation:The Week; Walmart presses for higher minimum wage
Publication:National Review
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 21, 2005
Words:131
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