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37. Amazon, whose valuation: Andrew Sorkin, “What Might Happen
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3 , 0 8 , https://www.nytimes.com/ 0 8 / 04 / 3 /business/dealbook/walmart
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and Human Services, the poverty threshold for a family of four in 0 8 was
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38. employees depend on SNAP: Claire Brown, “Amazon Gets Tax
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39. lobbying Congress for food aid: Shelly Banjo and Annie Gasparro,
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4 . including military households: Ibid.
43. one in four in rural America: ERS, “Rural Child Poverty Chart Gal-
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44. fare better as adults: CBPP, “Chart Book: SNAP Helps.”