National news stories last week reported that a survey of almost 1,500 Amazon employees across 42 states found that one in three need government assistance, primarily food stamps or Medicaid.
The news matches a Government Accountability Office analysis in 2020 that covered nine states and found that Amazon — and Walmart, too — were among the biggest employers of workers whose earnings were low enough that they qualified for food stamps.
That Amazon and Walmart would be near the top is no surprise: Walmart is the largest private-sector employer in the country with about 1.6 million workers, mor...
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