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12 Days of Charitable Giving: Shoes That Fit

27 December 2011

Our seventh charitable organization is Shoes That Fit. Shoes that Fit began in Claremont, California in 1992. Today, Shoes That Fit is helping children in need in thousands of schools across America. Shoes That Fit gives kids much-needed new shoes so that they can go to school in comfort and with dignity and focus on [...]

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Free Tax Prep Services Offered Again At WalMart

30 January 2010

Soooo, I had a little fun with Walmart last year when I found out that they would allow free tax prep services in Walmart parking lots across America. In my defense, I’m from the South: the snark couldn’t be helped. Nonetheless, the folks at One Economy reached out to me this year to see if [...]

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Walmart To Offer Free Tax Prep Services

11 February 2009

Occasionally, a news item will come across my desk that will cause me to do a double take. This story, reported on the PR Newswire, was one of those items: Wal-Mart will offer free tax filing services to eligible taxpayers in its parking lots. Just let that sink in for a minute. In fairness, it [...]

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Wal-Mart: Prices Aren’t the Only Things That Are Falling

18 August 2008

Last year, I posted about Wal-Mart’s aggressive stance on paying property taxes; not surprisingly, Wal-Mart isn’t a fan of paying property tax and has challenged a disproportionately high percentage of assessments for its stores (more than 2,100 property tax challenges nationwide). I titled the piece “Does Wal-Mart Want Your Kid To Read?” Flash forward to [...]

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Does Wal-Mart want your child to read?

17 October 2007

Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in America, according to Fortune 500. According to Good Jobs First, Wal-Mart recently posted earnings of $350 billion in annual revenue and reported a profit of $11 billion (with a b). One thing is clear about Wal-Mart: they don’t like to spend money. My mom always said, “That’s how the [...]

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126 billion reasons that the Immigration Bill failed to pass the Senate

11 June 2007

When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nevada) pulled the immigration bill last week, the blame game started immediately. Conservatives blamed Liberals. Liberals blamed Conservatives. But nobody pointed the finger where it rightly belonged: at the American people. While most surveys indicate that Americans aren’t opposed to an immigration bill that offers some form [...]

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