▪️This is dumb, Walmart is the biggest employer in the US, and biggest by a lot. So it would make sense they have the most employees on food stamps, especially since they employ more low-skilled workers than anyone else (2-5X the other biggest retailers and restaurants).
▪️This talking point came out in 2020 after Bernie Sanders commissioned a Govt Accounting Office (GAO) study on workers receiving Medicaid and SNAP benefits. It looked at a sample of 9 states and the characteristics of these workers.
https://www.gao.gov/assets/d2145.pdf
▪️Walmart didn’t top every state; in WA it was Safeway, McDonald’s in NE, Dunkin’ in MA, Hannaford’s in ME, etc. Basically, the largest employers in each state had the most workers on SNAP, not really that surprising. State govts, public schools, universities & hospitals even made the list.
▪️While Walmart had the most SNAP workers overall, it was still just a tiny minority, only between 1-3% of all working adult SNAP recipients in each state measured. Working SNAP recipients are very spread out in the economy.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
