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Walmart Admits: 'Our Profits' Depend on 'Their Poverty' (Click here to read more)

Nacktman (noreply@blogger.com)
Monday, April 07, 2014
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Critics cite irony of annual report filing: 'This is a company that everywhere it goes it creates poverty'
by Lauren McCauley
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A Penn State study found that in counties where Wal-Mart opens a store, poverty rates are negatively impacted.
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Although a notorious recipient of "corporate welfare," Walmart has now admitted that their massive profits also depend on the funding of food stamps and other public assistance programs. In their annual report, filed with the Security and Exchange Commission last week, the retail giant lists factors that could potentially harm future profitability. Listed among items such as "economic conditions" and "consumer confidence," the company writes that changes in taxpayer-funded public assistance programs are also a major threat to their bottom line.
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The company writes:

    Our business operations are subject to numerous risks, factors and uncertainties, domestically and internationally, which are outside our control ... These factors include ... changes in the amount of payments made under the Supplement[al] Nutrition Assistance Plan and other public assistance plans, changes in the eligibility requirements of public assistance plans ...

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Walmart, the nation's largest private employer, is notorious for paying poverty wages and coaching employees to take advantage of social programs. In many states, Walmart employees are the largest group of Medicaid recipients.
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However, this report is the first public acknowledgement of the chain's reliance on the funding of these programs to sustain a profit.