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One by one, each country with the money and the drive to compete started its own nuclear weapons program. Even with this kind of evidence in hand, science has reached only limited conclusions about how nuclear weapons testing affects individuals’ health. They helped create the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, signed by 93 countries, which bans the possession, use and testing of nuclear weapons. France has acknowledged its “debt” to Polynesians over nuclear testing, and it created a commission in 2010 to evaluate nuclear testing victim compensation claims, but it has never apologized. We are still wrestling with the damage wrought by testing nuclear weapons in our past.

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☆ Craft cocktails, mountain bikes and art: Walmart's hometown is booming, and getting more expensive
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Melissa Repko | In Melissa-Repko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

— When Gil Curren's family moved into a run-down farmhouse in Walmart's hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas, in 1971, the now-retail giant wasn't yet a decade old. Craft cocktails, hipster coffee shops and chef-driven restaurants have popped up around the city. Realtor Kristen Boozman, who works for Sotheby's, helps clients search for homes in the Bentonville area, including many buyers who are relocating from another city. Home values have shot up in the Bentonville area. A Walmart spokeswoman said the Walton Family Foundation funds and advocates for affordable housing projects in the Bentonville area.

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☆ We were paid $10,000 to move from Austin to Arkansas. It wasn't perfect, but we have no regrets.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Alisha Mcdarris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewNearly every time I mentioned my impending move to Arkansas, I was asked, "Why there?" It was a curious choice, especially considering I was leaving bustling and lively Austin for Fayetteville, Arkansas, a city known for little more than historical monuments and college football. After all, the cost of living in the Texas city was rapidly rising and we craved more adventure and outdoors than Austin's manicured parks and overcrowded campsites could offer. Related storiesAnd maybe Arkansas wasn't that big of a jump, anyway. In the end, we left Arkansas after 15 months and moved to a small city near the Wasatch Mountains in Utah.

Persons: —, Alisha McDarris, we'd, honked, isn't, Jason Cameron Organizations: Service, Business, Arkansas Council, Arkansas Razorback, Getty Locations: Arkansas, Austin, Fayetteville , Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas, Texas, Atlas, Bentonville, Utah, Our Arkansas

☆ What Walmart's RTO mandate is really about
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Dominick Reuter | Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Walmart's chief people officer, Donna Morris, commented similarly in a memo announcing the layoffs and relocations earlier that week. She wrote that working in an office would help workers collaborate, innovate, and "move even faster." Still, some employees continued working remotely, and several satellite offices remained open in cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Toronto, and Seattle. He also said he doesn't think the company is using this RTO mandate as a cover for achieving cost savings through workforce reductions, commonly referred to as "quiet firing," but that it's more part of Walmart's ethos. For the remote worker BI spoke with, the next few weeks will be filled with uncertainty.

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☆ I'm a delivery driver and I get better tips from apartments than gated communities
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( An Arkansas Gig Worker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A Walmart Spark driver in Rogers, Arkansas, has noticed a pattern when it comes to customer tipping. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with a driver in Rogers, Arkansas, who delivers primarily with Walmart Spark. 5260, which is south of town on Pleasant Crossing Boulevard, and Walmart store No. I'm not going to say those people living in the gated community don't deserve to be in that gated community. If you think I should be paid a fair wage and shouldn't rely on tips, don't use services that require me to not have a fair wage and to rely on tips.

Persons: —, I've, Rogers, it's, I'm, you've Organizations: Walmart, Service Locations: Rogers , Arkansas, Arkansas, Pleasant Crossing, Rogers, Pleasant

A group of poultry producers, including the world’s largest, have asked a federal judge to dismiss his ruling that they polluted an Oklahoma watershed. Arkansas-based Tyson Foods, Minnesota-based Cargill Inc. and the others say in a motion filed Thursday that evidence in the case is now more than 13 years old. A spokesperson for Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond did not immediately return a phone call for comment Saturday. “The Court’s findings and conclusions rest upon a record compiled in 2005–2009,” the poultry companies' motion stated. Attorneys for the companies and the state attorney general each said in Thursday filings that mediation had failed.

Persons: Tyson, Judge Gregory Frizzell, Gentner Drummond, Frizzell, ” Frizzell, Cobb Organizations: Tyson Foods, Cargill Inc, U.S, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Cal, Maine Foods Inc, Tyson Poultry Inc, Tyson Chicken Inc, Vantress, Cargill, George’s Inc, George’s, Inc, Peterson Farms Inc, Simmons Foods Inc Locations: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tyson Foods , Minnesota, Tulsa, Illinois, Cargill Turkey

They’re the atheists, the agnostics, the “nothing in particular.” Many are “spiritual but not religious,” and some are neither or both. “I grew up Methodist, but I don’t follow any religion,” said John, 32. But nones said in interviews they were happy to leave religion behind, particularly in toxic situations, and find community elsewhere. While they don’t describe their explorations as spiritual, they aim to inspire wonder and purpose in their children. ___Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc.

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☆ Two young tech workers share why they relocated to Arkansas from Texas and California
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

They stayed in Bentonville, Arkansas, for three days and stopped in Fayetteville — about 330 miles from Dallas — for coffee on the way back. Northwest Arkansas, which consists of Benton, Madison, and Washington counties, has become the country's 100th-largest metro area. Northwest Arkansas' plan to bring in new talentCompanies like Walmart, Tyson Foods, and JB Hunt are headquartered in Northwest Arkansas and have been attracting movers for years. The Northwest Arkansas Council tried luring remote tech talent with $10,000 and a mountain bike. Do you work in tech and recently move to Northwest Arkansas?

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☆ Opinion | The Absurd Republican Argument for Rolling Back Child Labor Laws
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Vrbin’s report notes that Kellams isn’t against teenagers working, and that as a teenager she herself worked at a local chicken plant that has a history of violating child labor laws. Some of these laws, like Iowa’s, which allows 14- and 15-year-olds to work up to six hours a day during the school year, conflict with federal labor law. According to Nina Mast, a state economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, the ultimate goal of the proponents of these state laws is to weaken federal child labor law. Though there were attempts to weaken child labor law after that, he says, they weren’t really mainstream for decades. In his book, Fliter notes that as a presidential candidate in 2012, the former House speaker Newt Gingrich “proposed a plan to allow poor children to work as janitors in schools” and called child labor laws “truly stupid.” Since then, political attacks on child labor laws have increased.

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☆ Walmart Helped Put Northwest Arkansas on the Map. Now Everybody Wants a Piece of It.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Libertina Brandt | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Clio and Adam Mills didn’t know much about Northwest Arkansas when, in July 2021, they visited a friend who lived in Bentonville. Mrs. Mills, who lived with Mr. Mills in Los Angeles at the time, said they immediately fell in love with the “growth and excitement” happening there. She said the Cocoon Yoga Lab, a local yoga studio, is the best studio she’s ever been to. The day after they arrived in Bentonville, Mrs. Mills, 37, founder of the digital and talent marketing agency Booje Media, asked to meet with her friend’s real-estate agent. About a week after their visit, the Mills put an offer on a three-bedroom home on over 3 acres in Bentonville.

☆ Walmart's experiment with pickup-and-delivery stores appears to be over as the last two prepare to close
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Ben Tobin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Walmart opened up its first pickup-and-delivery-only store in its headquarters city of Bentonville, Arkansas, in 2014. The retailer appears to be abandoning the model by closing the concept's last 2 remaining stores. But less than nine years after this launch, Walmart appears to be abandoning the concept as it closes the only two remaining standalone Walmart pickup and delivery stores in the country. In addition to the locations in Lincolnwood and Bentonville, a Walmart pickup and delivery only store opened in Metairie, Louisiana, in 2017 and closed last year. Walmart's decision to close these stores, where customers placed orders on walmart.com or the Walmart app, comes as the company has seen ecommerce growth slow greatly.

☆ Cities in Tennessee are constantly getting named the best places to move. Are they?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tennessee cities like Chattanooga and Knoxville often show up on lists of the best places to live. Even smaller Tennessee cities have experienced an influx in movers. Even Nashville dwellers are turning their back on city life and spreading out in smaller Tennessee towns like Clarksville, Pleasant View, and Ashland City, according to Frate. "In 2017 my average sales price was in the $180,000s," Frate said. "Now my average sales price is in the low to mid $300,000s."

☆ Hundreds of Tyson Foods Employees Expected to Depart as Company Closes Offices
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Patrick Thomas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tyson Foods announced that it would be closing its Chicago office, among others, as part of an effort to consolidate its corporate staff in Arkansas. Hundreds of Tyson Foods Inc. employees from two of its largest business units plan to leave the company as it consolidates its corporate offices to northwest Arkansas next year, according to people familiar with the matter. The largest U.S. meat supplier by sales said in October that it planned to close its offices in Chicago, Downers Grove, Ill., and Dakota Dunes, S.D., which currently house many of Tyson ‘s corporate employees in its prepared foods, beef and pork divisions. About 1,000 employees total work in those locations, the company has said.

☆ Hundreds of Tyson Foods employees to depart as company closes offices - WSJ
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Dec 21 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N) employees from two of its largest business units plan to leave as the company consolidates its corporate offices to northwest Arkansas next year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Tyson Foods did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment. Reporting by Ananya Mariam Rajesh in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini GanguliOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Arkansas Issue 4: Voters could legalize marijuana with a measure that would also give stipends to law enforcement
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Taiyler Simone Mitchell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Arkansas Issue 4 would legalize marijuana use and provide a stipend to law enforcement. Ballot measure detailsIssue 4 would legalize recreational marijuana use for adults over the age of 21 in the state of Alabama. The measure would establish a 10% sales tax for marijuana if passed and 15% percent of the tax revenue would then be allotted toward an annual law enforcement stipend. Gubernatorial nominee Chris Jones called Issue 4 a "good first step toward Arkansas embracing a pragmatic cannabis policy," according to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Arkansas's Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson argued at the Arkansas Municipal Police Association Convention in August that supporters are "going to sell this as something that's going to help law enforcement.

☆ I'm a 28-year-old crypto-startup founder who got paid $10,000 to move to Arkansas. More than 66,000 people applied to relocate here, and only 100 got accepted — here's why it's worth it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Robert Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Dmitri Love, 28, moved from Dallas to Cave Springs, Arkansas, in 2021. Love, 28, moved from Dallas to Cave Springs, Arkansas, in 2021. Love took advantage of a program that paid remote workers $10,000 to move to the area. From November 2020 to September 2022, more than 66,000 people from all 50 US states and 115 countries applied for the program. Entrepreneurs should find new places to live and provide valuePersonally, there were no drawbacks for me moving back to Arkansas.

☆ Want to fully embrace the work-from-home revolution and move to a new city? Here's how to pick the perfect place to work remotely
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-22 | by ( Justin Harlan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

As up to 20 million Americans plan to relocate thanks to the flexibility of remote work, their answers shed some light on how to think about where you should live. Find a city that's investing in itselfWhat do most people want out of life? Find a city that's right for youHow did we get so many people to move to Tulsa? People looking to move should ask themselves a set of growth-related questions as well: Is that city you're eyeing the right size, or is it already too crowded? Justin Harlan is the managing director of Tulsa Remote.

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