Corporate America’s Low Pay Shifts the Burden to US Taxpayers

There are a lot of jobs in the US economy that pay miserably low wages. And there are a lot that offer a reasonable hourly rate but still result in miserably low earnings because of unstable, fluctuating schedules. How many is hard to know, but it’s not a small number: According to the Government Accountability Office, there are about 9 million Medicaid recipients who are working full-time, and 7.5 million who receive SNAP benefits.