Workers at top US low-wage firms rely on public assistance, report says

maest

Does this count as a government subsidy for these companies?

mrguyorama

Walmart has a large fraction of it's employees not making enough to live, and receiving food stamps to help support them, while at the same time Walmart is the single largest recipient of food stamps dollars. They are double dipping, extracting wealth from a system that isn't supposed to make them wealthy. Food stamps is partially a government handout to businesses, but to agribusiness , not grocery chains, which did not need any government handouts and is only just now becoming an noncompetitive market. Tax payers get to support "Super important job creators" by subsidizing their payroll, giving them constant tax breaks, and feeding a percentage of every single government welfare dollar into their private pockets.

timoth3y

Every few years a bill is introduced requiring profitable companies to pay additional taxes to cover the cost of the SNAP (food stamp) benefits received by their employers. Lobbying ensures such proposals never gets far, but it seems like a common sense way of ensuring that these funds subsidize people rather than corporations.