Does Wal-Mart make neighborhoods poorer?

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http://www.comcast.net/articles/finance/20110203/NEWS-US-WALMART-NEWYORK/

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1. Do Republicans lie?

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2. how many

small businesses can one walmart be replaced with

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4. To save the security of the USA we need a new miliary unit.

Motto: one rocket launcher - one wallmart.

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3. Not in China.

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5. Is the pope Catholic?

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6. Describes exactly what happened in my mother's hometown.

"It looks appealing to a lot of families who are hurting but it turns into a big problem in the long term because of the net elimination of jobs," de Blasio said.

Wal-Mart has been trying to open in New York since 2005 but various plans floundered on objections from the community and union activists. Now the company is reported to be looking at locations including East New York and Brownsville -- Brooklyn neighborhoods known for high unemployment, crime and drugs.

Dilapidated buildings and empty lots are common and many residents live in public housing in these neighborhoods. The U.S. Census data for 2007-2009 show the median family income in the East New York neighborhood is $33,485; in Brownsville it is $26,802. The median family income in all of New York City is $55,562.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/finance/20110203/NEWS-US-WALMART-NEWYORK/
The local merchants had to close because, although they had a better selection of products, they could not compete on prices.

Walmart flattened a lot, changed the environment in unpleasant ways, built a store with a huge, ugly parking lot in front of it, and then, of course, as soon as the Walmart tax deal was no longer useful to Walmart, they abandoned the huge, ugly store they had built. Now either no one wants it or they refuse to sell or rent it to any other company or builder. They created blight in small town America. Incredible. I'm glad we don't have Walmart in Los Angeles.