Workers at biggest fast food companies need billions in public assistance

Walmart isn't the only corporate giant relying on government assistance to make up for the low, low wages it pays its workers. According to a new report from the University of California-Berkeley Labor Center, 52 percent of front-line fast food workers are on some form of public assistance, at a cost of nearly $7 billion a year. And the 10 largest fast food companies account for $3.8 billion of that, the National Employment Law Project estimates.   READ MORE

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by SGWM on Fri Oct 18, 2013 at 08:51:39 AM PDT