'Starvation Wages' at Giant US Corporations Force Workers to Seek Taxpayer-Funded Aid

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• Zier@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Minimum wage in the "richest country in the world" needs to be $25/hr without tips.
  Or is "richest country" always been a lie?

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  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Yes

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• crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Everyone talking about their tax dollars paying for these programs seem to have no problem with their tax dollars subsidizing these companies’ payrolls.

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• Fishnoodle@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Corporations seldomly produce wealth for people or a nation. In practice they’re merely a means of organizing the labor of many into a system that allows the benefits and money to be funneled to a small few.

  And lack of any real competition gives them no reason to improve the lives of any one other than themselves.

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  According to our analysis of state-level data from September 2025, the employers who employed the most Medicaid enrollees or SNAP beneficiaries varied across the 11 states that provided data. However, 46 companies (about one-third of the total companies across all 11 states) were among the top 25 employers of Medicaid enrollees or SNAP beneficiaries in at least two states. Seventeen of these 46 companies were among the 50 largest Fortune 500 companies by number of employees.

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