Saturday, July 27, 2013

No free lunch


Opinion 

The conservative approach to the wages of the working poor has, in part, resulted in apparent bargains for shoppers. Cheap prices at Wal-Mart, Kroger and McDonalds are a direct result of low wages, little or low benefits and manipulated work schedules.
Wake up shoppers! What you are saving on goods you will spend on medical care, food stamps and other life sustaining tax payer supported goods and services for these employees.
Data collected from Ohio public records indicate the following:(DDN 7/21/13
The number of employees' or family members using tax payer supported Medicaid from 2008-2013:
Wal-mart 9,000 – 17,700
McDonalds 10,000 – 14,000

Kroger* 4,000– 6,700
*A unionized company

More relevant information

Some folks may rationalize by saying...So what? Those workers are all teenagers. They live at home.” But the median age of today’s fast-food worker is over 29, and many are trying to support families. One estimate claims that a family of four needs nearly $90,000 a year to get by in the nation’s capital. That’s six minimum-wage jobs. Explain to me, please, how you can be pro-family and anti-living-wage simultaneously?
Paul Hunter contactpaulhunter54177@gmail.com

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