One more of the myriad ways the lucky average taxpayer gets to subsidize big business: More than half of the nation’s 1.8 million core fast-food workers rely on the federal safety net to make ends meet, the reports said. Together, they collect nearly $1.9 billion through the earned income tax credit, $1 billion in food stamps and $3.9 billion through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, according to a report by economists at the University of California at Berkeley’s Labor Center and the University of Illinois.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:23:34 +0000
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