Walmart Heirs Have As Much Wealth As Bottom 40 Percent Of Americans Combined

Walmart Heirs Have As Much Wealth As Bottom 40 Percent Of Americans Combined: Last year, Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist at the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, found that as of 2007, the Walton family — heirs to the Walmart fortune — had a net worth equal to that of the bottom 30 percent of Americans. And due to the effects of the Great Recession that ratio [...]/p