This article is from the Wall Street Journal, for crying out loud!

 

"The study found that 56% of federal and state dollars spent between 2009 and 2011 on welfare programs — including Medicaid, food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit — flowed to working families and individuals with jobs. In some industries, about half the workforce relies on welfare.

 

When companies pay too little for workers to provide for their families, workers rely on public assistance programs to meet their basic needs,” said Ken Jacobs, chairman of the university’s Center for Labor Research and Education and one of the report’s authors.

 

More than half of front-line fast-food workers receive some form of government assistance.

<p style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Chronicle SSm', serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Pay for those workers has received significant attention recently. Fast-food workers have held several protests and strikes over the past year. And earlier this month, McDonald’s said it would raise pay for 90,000 of its lowest-paid employees at company-operated stores.

<p style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Chronicle SSm', serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Among other fields, 48% of home-care workers and 25% of part-time college faculty also receive government assistance.

<p style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Chronicle SSm', serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);">The report bolsters the long-standing contention that taxpayers are subsidizing low-wage employers."

<p style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Chronicle SSm', serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);">http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/1...-have-one/

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