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Benefits Blues | Spiraling health costs squeeze Wal-Mart as they do every other large company.

Women Against Wal-Mart | Sex-discrimination charges constitute the largest-ever class action lawsuit against a private employer.

Wal-Mart offers statements on a host of issues, including some discussed in this article.

CT covered Christian bookstores that have suffered from a drop in business after Wal-Mart and other big retailers began carrying Christian books.

Forbes magazine covered Wal-Mart's expansion into the Christian product business.

Christian Retailing quotes a Christian bookstore owner who says, "Wal-Mart is a canker out there that's killing our market in this country. Until the suppliers realize that and start standing up to Wal-Mart and start protecting independent stores, we're on a death trail."

PBS's Frontline ran a documentary last November about Wal-Mart. The full program is available for viewing online.

Ariah Fine is a student at Wheaton College and says in this Relevant article that shopping at Wal-Mart is wrong.

Baptist Press says a pastor was asked to stop passing out tracks at his local Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart Facts is the public relations push the company is using to show it's environment, community, and people-friendly.

The National Labor Committee has a page of articles about Wal-Mart's labor abuses.

After some deliberation, Danny Duncan Collum writes in Sojourners Magazine, "Today I'm ready to join the ranks of all right-thinking people the world over in declaring Wal-Mart an outpost of hell on earth."

More Christianity Today articles on Money & Business is available from our website.

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May 2005, Vol. 49, No. 5