of waukesha, wisconsin is at a ceremony at city hall officials lit the building blue and held a moment of silence to mark one week since six people were killed when a driver plowed through a christmas parade. seven people are still hospitalized. the city is using blue lights as a reminder to help the city unite and heal through the holiday. the fashion world lost a superstar, virgil ablo, just 41 years old but already one of the most influential designers and fashion executives in the world the founder of the brand off white. and artistic director of vitton s menswear and called a visionary for elevating every day clothing into high fashion. he died today after a two-year bat wela rare cancer. we ve been talking a lot lately about the higher prices of groceries forcing really difficult choices for millions of families who count on government food assistance that is not going as far now. get some cereal
christening his massive wind farm. not only the richest person in the world, but in modern history. i have never sought that title, and it was fine being the second wealthiest person in the world. that actually worked fine. if the stock price of amazon is the richest person of amazon and stock goes down by something if he s not, i would doubt that jeff cares. but others certainly do. amazon had a good day. senator bernie sanders led a movement that accused amazon of not playing its blue collar workers a living wage, and in 2018 a report on the news site the intercept cited data suggesting that over 30% of amazon employees in arizona were on government food assistance. people start to say does it make sense for employees, the richest man in the world to be on public assistance? jeff bazos was not available to be interviewed for this hour, but others close to him
i have never sought that title. and it was fine being the second wealthiest person in the world. that actually worked sglin if the stock price is the richest person of the world stock goes down by something he s not. i would doubt jeff cares. others certainly do. i think i understand it his wealth wept up $2 billion yesterday. amazon had a good day. sanders accused amazon of not playing blue collar workers a living wage. in 2018 a report on the new site the intercept cited data suggesting over 30% of amazon employees in arizona were on government food assistance. people start to say does it make sense for employees of the richest man in the world to be on public assistance? jeff bezos was not available to be interviewed for this hour.
anxious, resentful, and demoralizing. those are the emotions described by the founder of panera bread during his snap challenge based on the program formerly known as food stamps. in order to raise awareness about the reality of living on government food assistance, he s subsisting for a week on the federal government allotment, $4.50 a day. he writes, i have had a glimpse into how detrimental and all-consuming hunger can be and i m barely halfway through my merely seven-day challenge. his experience emphasizes that snap is an emergency measure to provide food security for 47 million americans. it s a program of last resort. analyzing scene ining census da snap lifted 20 million people out of poverty. for the tens of millions of other recipients who were not pushed above the poverty line, they at least became less poor.
western atlantic, we have tropical storm chantal right now maximum sustained winds at 50 miles per hour. it is headed towards parts of haiti. we could be looking at impacts out there as we head into thursday morning, early morning or late wednesday. unfortunately. then eyes on the southeastern coast of the u.s. where the storm is headed as we head into this weekend and early next week. of course, we ll keep an eye on that. brian: indeed. steve: thank you very much. moving on, a new study found president obama has mentioned the word poverty less than any other u.s. president dating as far back as jfk. interesting, considering the poverty rate under president obama has climbed into the millions. gretchen: in fact, there are more americans collecting government food assistance now than working in the private sector. stuart varney is here to explain. that s bad news. it s incredible. the president really has transformed america from a dynamic prosperous growth