Wal-Mart Fortune Left To Charity

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Wal-Mart Fortune Left To Charity

May 4, 2007 | ISSUE 43•18

The death of the Wal-Mart founder's widow, Helen Walton, is slated to become a $16.4 billion windfall for The Walton Family Foundation, a charitable organization that backs public education reform. What do you think?

Helen Walton leaving her fortune to the Walton Family Foundation? This stinks of nepotism.

Lacey Rasmussen
Systems Analyst
This mom-and-pop public education operation has been around long enough.

Brendan Flaherty
Concierge
On the one hand, I don't care for Wal-Mart. On the other hand, I don't care for public education. So this rich dead lady is really starting to piss me off.

Larry Keenan
Grocer

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