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Companies pay so badly, workers need taxpayer-funded aid
Bill Knight, Journalism Professor Emeritus
Western Illinois University
When you drive by a local big-box retailer, “dollar store” or fast-food joint, there’s a chance you’ll be passing a place where you and other taxpayers are underwriting companies paying workers lousy wages.
That’s according to the nonpartisan Government Accounting Office’s recent reports criticizing Big Business and Big Government.
Many full-time workers at some of the country’s largest and most profitable corporations get wages so low that they qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or “food stamps”) and Medicaid, according to the report, titled “Millions of Full-time Workers Rely on Federal Health Care and Food Assistance Programs.”