Give Wal-Mart credit for filling market void (free subscription required) is an opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution by civil rights icon and former ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young. He has just recently agreed to head up an organization supportive of Wal-Mart called Working Families for Wal-Mart.
I've watched the attacks, and I think the critics have it wrong. Now is the time for those who care about the poor to step up, speak out and join this national discussion.
Those who have committed their lives to helping the poor believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead, and provided opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans who are battling poverty would be able to ascend the rungs of the ladder that leads to the American dream.
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