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Fired from Dollar General for Speaking Out About Unsafe Conditions

A conversation with Daniel Stone, a former employee of Dollar General in Nashville

Maximillian Alvarez

A woman walks by a Dollar General store on December 11, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Maximillian Alvarez is editor-in-chief at the Real News Network and host of the podcast Working People, available at InThe​se​Times​.com. He is also the author of The Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the World Broke.

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