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9. Sima J. Gandhi, “Eliminating Tax Subsidies for Oil Companies,”
Center for American Progress, May 13, 2010. www.americanprogress.
org/issues/2010/05/oil_company_subsidies.html.
10. Greg Sargent, “Bipartisan Group of Senators Calls for Ethanol
Subsidies to Expire,” Washington Post, Nov. 30, 2010. voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/11/bipartisan_group_of_senators_c.html.
11. Tom Philpott, “How Cash and Corporate Pressure Pushed Ethanol to
the Fore,” Grist, December 6, 2006. www.grist.org/article/ADM1/.
12. James Bovard, “Archer Daniels Midland: A Case Study in Corporate
Welfare,” Cato Institute, Sept. 26, 1995. www.cato.org/pub_display
.php?pub_id=1100.
13. Philip Mattera and Anna Purinton, “Shopping for Subsidies:
How Wal- Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never- Ending
Growth,” Good Jobs First, May 2004. www.goodjobsfirst.org/sites/
default/files/docs/pdf/wmtstudy.pdf.
14. Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester, and Barry Eidlin, “A Downward
Push: The Impact of Wal- Mart Stores on Retail Wages and Benefits,”
University of California Berkeley Center for Labor Research and
Education, Dec. 2007. http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/retail/
walmart_downward_push07.pdf.
15. “Low Wages Fact Sheet,” walmartwatch.com.
16. See: www.goodjobsfirst.org/corporate_subsidy/hidden_taxpayer_
costs.cfm.
17. “The Impact of an Urban Wal- Mart Store on Area Businesses: An
Evaluation of One Chicago Neighborhood’s Experience,” Julie Davis,
David Merriman, Lucia Samayoa, Brian Flanagan, Ron Baiman, and
Joe Persky, Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University
Chicago, Dec. 2009. www.charlesvillage.net/ walmart- loyola.pdf.
18. Stacy Mitchell, Big- Box Swindle, pp. 22–23.
19. Barry C. Lynn, “Breaking the Chain: The Antitrust Case Against Wal-
Mart,” Harper’s, July 2006. harpers.org/archive/2006/07/0081115.
20. Stacy Mitchell, “Neighborhood Stores: An Overlooked Strategy
for Fighting Global Warming,” Grist, Aug. 19, 2009. www.grist.org/
article/2009-08-19- neighborhood- stores- strategy- for- fighting- globalwarming.
21. Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Winner- Take- All Politics, Simon &
Schuster, 2010, pp. 274–275.
22. Catherine Rampell, “Corporate Profits Were the Highest on
Record Last Quarter,” New York Times, Nov. 23, 2010. www.nytimes.
com/2010/11/24/business/economy/24econ.html.
23. Michael Powell, “Profits Are Booming, Why Aren’t Jobs?” New York
Times, Jan. 9, 2011. Jeffrey Sohl of the Center for Venture Research at
the University of New Hampshire calls it “the capital gap”—the difficulty
faced by entrepreneurs trying to raise between $250,000 and