How Billionaires Cracked the Food Stamp Cheat Code

Your taxes subsidize Amazon and Walmart poverty wages. These are trillion dollar companies, but 33% of Amazon workers need public assistance and 25% of Walmart workers need SNAP to survive. We investigated how corporations are taking advantage of workers—and all of us. Read more of our analysis here: https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/your-tax-dollars-are-subsidizing Producer: Liz Scheltens Editor: Eric Schuman Supervising Producer: Sam Quigley Videographers: Anita Kwan LaDawn Manuel Joseph Peterson Dmytro Savchuk Animator: Gerald Lane Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalanta ----- More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom whose mission is to build power for working people. Here’s what that means: We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective. We attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions. We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power. And we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems. To support our independent journalism, subscribe, donate, and follow our other pages through the links below: - Help fund our reporting: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mpu-splash - Substack: https://substack.perfectunion.us/ - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@moreperfectunion - Twitter: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS - Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MorePerfectUS - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perfectunion/ - Threads: https://www.threads.net/@perfectunion - Website: https://www.perfectunion.us