Walton family wealth in 2018: $146 billion
Walton family wealth in 2021: $228 billion
Walmart minimum wage in 2018: $11 an hour
Walmart minimum wage in 2021: $11 an hour
It is a moral outrage that the richest family in America pays workers at Walmart starvation wages.
I will be voting against the Defense Appropriations bill. We need to get our priorities right. At a time when we have enormous unmet needs in our country we should not be spending $740 billion on the military – more than the next 10 nations combined.
Since 1990, there has been a massive transfer of wealth from workers to the people on top. While the 1% have seen their wealth go up by $22 trillion, the bottom 50% of Americans have seen their wealth go down by $776 billion. We need a strong middle class, not an oligarchy.
Jeff Bezos could give every Amazon employee $105,000 and still be as rich as he was before the pandemic.
Instead he's denying paid sick leave to his employees — and has already subjected nearly 20,000 warehouse workers to Covid-19.
Demand Congress tax the rich, and shop local.
If you want to know why COVID relief is tied up in Congress, one key reason is that Republicans are demanding legal immunity for corporations so they can expose their workers to COVID without repercussions.
Dems don’t want you to die for a check. That’s what we’re fighting over.
@PressSec When the POTUS pushes a fascist agenda, is a blatant racist, & encourages the masses to incite violence, who did you think he’d be compared to? Not downplaying the events or victims of the Holocaust but a serious warning of how dangerously close we are to it happening again.
The refusal of Republican leaders to acknowledge the results of the presidential election is not just an attack on Biden. It is an attack on American democracy, and shows the degree to which the Republican party is moving toward authoritarianism.
@thomaskaine5 @luvwinsresist Someone said pity and I think that’s a good word. Reminds me of this - For my turn, I pity Pierce too. - https://t.co/mD4N7BdMMQ