Not disagreeing with most of your points, but: > This article says nothing about the total number of employees McD's and Walmart have. It's committing the same

Not disagreeing with most of your points, but: > This article says nothing about the total number of employees McD's and Walmart have. It's committing the same error as heat maps that aren't adjusted for population If you have evidence that the percentage of employees on government assistance in WM and McDs is lower than that for other large employers (or even the same), I'd very much like to see it. I strongly suspect that the evidence will show the opposite - that it will confirm the rankings