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The Greening of Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart’s new green-washed image is deflecting attention from the drag the company continues to inflict on workers’ wages and communities’ quality of life.

Jonathan RoweApr 19, 2011

When you get off Highway 101 at Exit 484A, you immediately fall into headachy traffic on access roads not designed for this crush. It is the kind of dysfunction that Wal-Mart would never tolerate in its own internal operations but that big-box stores breed in the world they increasingly define. This Wal-Mart is in Rohnert Park, California, about 50 miles north of San Francisco. 

Every Baby a Trust Fund Baby

Jonathan RoweDec 19, 2001


Estate taxes are a problem that most Americans would like to have. Not many do. To qualify, one has to have a nice piece of change--at least $1.3 million for a married couple and, taking loopholes into account, more like $5 million. At present fewer than 2 percent of Americans achieve that kind of affluence. Some 40 percent die with no assets at all to leave behind for the kids and grandkids.



Rebuilding the Nonmarket Economy

Jonathan RoweDec 19, 2001

Last March, The New York Times carried the

story of John Knigery of Portland, Oregon. The eighty-two-year-old victim of

Alzheimer's disease was found abandoned near the men's room of a dog-racing

track in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. A picture showed him in a wheelchair, clutching

a teddy bear, as attendants loaded him onto an airplane for the flight back to

Portland and whatever arrangements awaited him there.

To seniors, John Kingery's story is their worst nightmare; to baby-boomer

adults, it is a dread picture of a future not as distant as it once seemed.

According to the American College of Emergency Physicians there are over 70,000

Imagesbusters, the Sequel

Jonathan RoweNov 19, 2001

Free Market Violence

Jonathan Rowe

Up From the Bedside

Jonathan RoweDec 04, 2000

As hospital care has become prohibitively expensive, home health care has swelled into a $7 billion industry, generating a wave of corporate investment. Growth has been so rapid that the industry has even attracted interest from foreign companies. Yet the field also has spawned alternatives to the dominant corporate model, including cooperatives that aim to provide economic opportunity to the poor as well as personal care to the infirm.