Just like Walmart, McDonald’s counts on these taxpayer subsidies to prop up their poor wages:
Nancy Salgado has worked at McDonald’s for 10 years and struggles to support her children with a wage that keeps her under the poverty line. So she called the fast-food behemoth’s employee hotline, known as McResources, in hopes of finding help making ends meet.
But instead of getting any company assistance, the McDonald’s operator suggested Salgado try food pantries, federal food stamps and Medicaid.
The conversation – which was recorded and released to the public Wednesday by labor advocacy group Low Pay Is Not Ok – comes as attention is growing around the taxpayer burden of so many low-paid workers in the fast-food industry.
A report released earlier this month written by economists at UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that more than half of families of fast-food workers receive some form of public assistance, costing the nation $7 billion a year.
Well this is only half the story. If she just got another part time job or two and lived within the company’s prescribed budget, she wouldn’t need taxpayer help.