Update on Sowell's Silly Column

Remember Sowell's question about how the worker at Wal-Mart could be living on what Wal-Mart paid if Wal-Mart wasn't paying a living wage?

Here you go, Mr. Sowell:

Estimated total federal assistance for which Wal-Mart employees were eligible last year: $2,500,000,000[Democratic Staff of the Committee on Education and the Workforce (Washington)]

http://www.harpers.org/HarpersIndex2005-03.html