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b_b · 4147 days ago · link · · parent · post: McDonald's can't figure out how its workers survive on minimum wage
The minimum wage here is a joke, really. Unfortunately, the butt of the joke are the workers who have to work for those wages. Well, and the taxpayer, whom these companies steal from every time one of their workers has to apply for federal benefits, because their children would starve otherwise. Wal-Mart is the most highly subsidized company in the US, and so many of those subsidies end of lining the Waltons' pockets. It's sad, especially when economic studies show that higher wages make the whole economy stronger. I guess it's a vicious game of prisoners' dilemma that these companies are playing.