Bernie Sanders Calls Wal-Mart Walton Family Wealth Unacceptable

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“The major welfare abuser in America is the wealthiest family in America, the Walton family,” Sen. Bernie Sanders says, referring to founders of Wal-Mart Stores. Walton family demonstrates nation’s “rigged” economy in that Wal-Mart doesn’t pay its employees a “living wage,” forcing many workers to turn to food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing funded by taxpayers, the Democratic presidential candidate says at campaign event in Keene, N.H. “I say to the Walton family, get off of welfare. Pa

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