So far our group has only met once where we wrote the first group deliverable as a team. The first source I have is a power point from an associate professor at Ohio State which states several facts about Wal-mart’s size, growth, benefits, effects and many other specific topics. This is perfect for our project because it is a completely non-biased power point and gives the sources from which its information comes from. The second source is a pbs.org Nightly Business Report which focuses on the scrutiny of the cases imposed on Wal-mart. It gives many detailed business facts such as women in the work force and how Wal-mart will not allow unionization. This is a good source from the economist's standpoint and may help us understand many of the issues that we may not have thought about in the local standpoint. The third source is a newspaper posting from a North Carolina State University entitled Wal-mart and the local economy. This is perfect because it relates to local stores and can be very well related to the situation here in West Lafayette and the surrounding Purdue area.

www-agecon.ag.ohio-state.edu/programs/ComRegEcon/walmart/Jan25-ExtUpdate-Irwin2.ppt

www.pbs.org/nbr/site/research/learnmore/051104_walmarteconomy/

http://www.ag-econ.ncsu.edu/VIRTUAL_LIBRARY/ECONOMIST/novdec05.pdf