Walmart and Food Stamps
31st October 2013
People tend to think of food stamps as being money in the pockets of poor hungry people, but it turns out the money ends up in the pockets of the owners of Walmart, i.e., the Walton family, who are some of America’s richest. It’s somewhat similar to how Pell Grant money, billed as aid to poor college students, winds up in the pockets of relatively well-off professors. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, but it isn’t often mentioned in the political debates over spending on these programs.