Walmart at the Trough: Billions Scammed from Your Tax Money
Walmart, which already is profiting mightily from federal, taxpayer paid corporate welfare in the form of food stamps subsidizing its workers’ low wages, as well as billions in direct profits from...
View ArticleJust Raise the Minimum Wage
Raise the minimum wage. The arguments for are strong, and the arguments against don’t hold up to facts. You still think everything on the dollar menu really costs only a dollar? Better read this. One...
View ArticleOn The Jim Bohannon Show: Why Walmart (Hearts) Food Stamps
Following my Reuter’s piece on how Walmart, McDonalds and others profit from food stamps, I joined radio host Jim Bohannon to discuss food stamps, the minimum wage, and more. According to Jim: When you...
View ArticleArguments Against Raising Minimum Wage Don’t Hold Up
The arguments against raising the minimum wage don’t hold up to facts. Aren’t most people who work for minimum wage teens? No– 88 percent are adults, with more than a third over age 40. These workers...
View ArticleWalmart (Hearts) Food Stamps
How expensive are those everyday low prices? How much do things really cost on the dollar menu? The answer is more than you think, but maybe not for the reason you think. Lovin’ It: Food Stamps The...
View ArticleWalmart Again Holds Food Drive for Own Underpaid Workers
Happy Thanksgiving! Walmart, who pays its workers so little and/or gives them so few hours, that they cannot feed themselves while the Walton family rakes in billions, does have its sense of humor....
View ArticleCongrats America! One Out of Five of Your Kids Needs Food Stamps
Data released by the Census Bureau Wednesday showing a staggering 16 million children in the U.S., about one out of five kids under the age of 18, received food stamp assistance in 2014. Overall, more...
View ArticlePoverty is Good Business: The Economics of Food Stamps (SNAP)
The Republican House and Democratic Senate reached a compromise last year that cut Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP; what food stamps are now called.) Republicans initially called for...
View ArticleLife in the New American Minimum-Wage Economy with the Ghosts of Tom Joad
There are many sides to whistleblowing. The one that most people don’t know about is the very personal cost, prison aside, including the high cost of lawyers and the strain on family relations, that...
View ArticleDoes Income Inequality Matter to the Richest Americans?
Does income inequality matter to the richest Americans? Not very much. Here’s why. And it’s more than just greed-is-good; the rich will just get richer. A study by economists at Washington University...
View ArticleArizona Spent Over $1.7 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients to Catch 1...
Somehow in America if you are poor and in need of food, you better not take drugs, or no public assistance for you! You deserve to die of hunger because you spend your money on ‘da dope. Just don’t die...
View ArticleMaine Outlaws Jet Skis for Welfare Recipients
In another step in the long political tradition of imposing bombastic, faux populist, hate-mongering solutions to problems that don’t really exist, Maine Governor Paul LePage announced he is tired of...
View ArticleMajority of U.S. Public School Students Live in Poverty
For the first time since the Great Depression, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound...
View Article‘Please do not feed the animals’: Oklahoma GOP Compares Food Stamp Recipients...
In America, we have a very crude understanding of social welfare programs. For most Americans, anything the government gives to its people (i.e., us) to keep us healthy, fed and educated, is a...
View ArticleThousands of Americans Are Hungry Because of Post-Prison Release Laws
Food stamps are for hungry people, which we should not have in America. There are of course cheaters, just like there are wealthy people who cheat on their taxes. The tax cheats won’t starve to death,...
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