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A report that explains how Wal-Mart and other Big Box Stores Use Taxpayer Money and Redevelopment Agencies to the ruin of the towns they move into. It is a 75 page document. If you would like the entire document please email a request for "Subsidies Report Request" and it will be sent to you. Make request to Grandterracenews@yahoo.com

Shopping for Subsidies:
How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money
to Finance Its Never-Ending Growth
by Philip Mattera and Anna Purinton
with
Jeff McCourt, Doug Hoffer,
Stephanie Greenwood & Alyssa Talanker
May 2004
Good Jobs First
1311 L Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
202-626-3780
www.goodjobsfirst.org
© 2004 Good Jobs First. All rights reserved.
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Table of Contents
Note to Readers......................................................................................................5
Acknowledgments ..................................................................................................6
Executive Summary ................................................................................................7
Introduction .........................................................................................................11
I. Tracking Wal-Mart’s Use of Public Money .........................................................13
II. A Wide Assortment of Subsidies ......................................................................15
III. Retail Store Findings .......................................................................................18
IV. Distribution Center Findings ...........................................................................26
V. Public Policy Options........................................................................................31
Appendix A: Model Language for Restricting Retail Subsidies .............................33
Appendix B: Descriptions of Subsidy Deals (arranged by state and city)..............35
Appendix C: Subsidies by Type and Amount ........................................................57
Endnotes...............................................................................................................62

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