HOW CHEAP IS “CHEAP” MEXICAN LABOR??? IS THE REAL COST
SIMPLY TRANSFERRED OVER TO THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS IN THE FORM OF TAXES???
ON THE STATE LEVEL ALONE, CA PUTS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR
IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS. COUNTIES PAY OUT MORE WITH LOS ANGELES COUNTY
PAYING OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY
BREEDERS. YOU WILL NOT FIND IN LOS ANGELES ANY FAST FOOD SERVICE THAT HIRED
NON-HISPANICS! DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSION IF THEY’RE LEGALS OR NOT. MOST CAN
BARELY SAY HELLO IN ENGLISH, WHICH DIDN’T PREVENT THEM FROM GETTING A JOB.
Report
shows more than half of US fast food workers receive government aid
By
Thomas Gaist
23 October 2013
23 October 2013
More than
half of fast food workers in the United States, whose average wage is less than
$9 per hour, receive government anti-poverty benefits, according to a report
published October 15 by researchers at the University of California at
Berkeley.
The report, entitled “Fast-food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of
Low-Wage Jobs in the Fast-Food Industry,” found that families of non-managerial
fast food workers receive government aid totaling $7 billion per year,
including $3.9 billion for health care aid, $1.04 billion for food stamps, and
$1.91 billion from tax credits.
“The
taxpayer costs we discovered were staggering,” said Ken Jacobs, one of the
report’s co-authors. “People who work in fast-food jobs are paid so little that
having to rely on public assistance is the rule, rather than the exception,
even for those working 40 hours or more a week.” Fifty-two percent of fast food
workers rely on government assistance programs, compared to 25 percent of the
workforce as a whole.
Many fast
food workers are deliberately prevented from working full-time by management,
but the report shows that more than half of those who secure 40 hours per week
remain dependent on government assistance to survive. A total of 87 percent of
fast food workers receive no health benefits through their employer.
In a
commentary carried by the McClatchy-Tribune News Service, the lead
authors of the study, Sylvia Allegretto and Marc Doussard, wrote, “It might
come as a surprise that most Americans on public assistance programs work. In
the fast food industry, workers rely on public assistance programs in
particularly large numbers because those jobs just don’t pay them enough.”
While
paying their workers poverty wages, the fast food companies continue to rake in
enormous profits. The 10 largest US fast food corporations collectively account
for $3.8 billion of the $7 billion in government aid. These 10 fast food
providers reaped profits of $7.4 billion in 2012. Since 2009, fast food
companies have seen their profit margins double. Fast-food executives continue
to receive multimillion-dollar compensation packages. David Novak, CEO of Yum!
Brands received $29.4 million in compensation in 2012, or more than $14,000 per
hour.
On
average, fast food workers are paid $8.69 per hour, with many receiving wages
as low at $7.25 per hour. One out of five families in which one worker is
employed in the fast food sector is below the federal poverty line, and 43
percent are below 200 percent of the poverty line. Nearly 70 percent of fast
food workers are the main breadwinner for their family.
Almost 60
percent of new jobs created since the beginning of the economic crisis have
been low-paying service sector jobs, according to the statistics published by
NELP. Along the same lines, the Economic Policy Institute determined that,
based on the current trajectory, at least 30 percent of American workers will
be employed in such jobs by the year 2020.
A report
published by the Associated Press in July, based on research conducted
by Mark Rank of Washington University, concluded that four out of five
Americans are “economically insecure,” that is, they received an income
equivalent to less than 150 percent of the federal poverty line, were
unemployed, or received state assistance for a year or more.
Even as the
number of people in poverty continues to grow, government anti-poverty programs
are being slashed. The Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program, which
provides assistance to jobless workers who have exhausted state-run
unemployment benefits, is set to cease payments at the end of December.
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), 4 of 10
unemployed US workers have been unsuccessfully seeking new jobs for more than
27 weeks.
Reductions
in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments will go into
effect on November 1 as a temporary increase in funding to the food assistance
program is allowed to expire. Further cuts to SNAP are being prepared, and the
House of Representatives approved a bill in mid-September that would cut $39
billion from SNAP over 10 years. The Democratic budget for 2013, passed earlier
in the year, has already cut $4 billion in funding for food assistance.
The
sudden withdrawal of both of these forms of aid will have a disastrous impact
on millions of working class families across America. At least 73 percent of
enrollees in public benefits programs come from families with at least one
working member, who still cannot make ends meet. The number of Americans who
depend on government funds to purchase food, meanwhile, jumped from 9 percent
in 2008 to 15 percent in 2012.
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AMNESTY….LA
RAZA IS PRINTING OUT FRAUD I.D.s BY THE MILLIONS.
"They hauled them down to the
border," Sakuma said. "Three days later, they were standing in our office,
but they had a different name and a different Social Security number."
THE
DEVASTATING COST OF MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION, LOOTING, WELFARE STATE,
VIOLENCE, RACISM and CRIME TIDAL WAVE
more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast
City Journal
How Unskilled Immigrants Hurt Our Economy
Immigration’s
bottom line has shifted so sharply that in a high-immigration state like
California, native-born residents are paying up to ten times more in state and
local taxes than immigrants generate in economic benefits.
A handful of
industries get low-cost labor, and the taxpayers foot the bill. TRANSLATE,
FIRST WE GIVE OUR JOBS TO ILLEGALS, THEN WE GET THE TAX BILLS FOR THE LA RAZA
MEXICAN WELFARES STATE and CRIME TIDAL WAVE!
BARACK OBAMA: The Man
that Employed Mexico, Expanded the Markets for the Mexican He Armed, Built the LA RAZA Welfare State in
America and BANKRUPTED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DOING IT
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OBAMA and HIS BANKS:
THEIR PROFITS, CRIMES and LOOTING SOAR
UNDER OBAMA, TWO-THIRDS
OF JOBS GO TO HIS PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS!
“At
the hearing, Dr. Rakesh Kochar, Associate Director for Research at the Pew
Hispanic Center, testified that in the year following the official end of the
recession (June 2009), foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while
native-born workers lost an additional 1.2 million jobs.”
"We have a
situation where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal
immigration relatively high without even a national debate," he said.
"As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to
immigrants."
Mr. Obama did
take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years of age a
tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and authorizes
them to work in the United States.
Some
Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates
his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.
AMERICANS (LEGALS) HAND THEIR JOBS OVER TO ILLEGALS USING STOLEN
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, PAY FOR THE ANCHOR BABY BREEDING = 18 YEARS OF
WELFARE, AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE… but have NO vote in amnesty?
BUT THE DEMS ARE REALLY NOT CONCERNED ABOUT AMNESTY PASSING
AS OBAMA WILL CONTINUE NON-ENFORCEMENT UNTIL ILLEGALS ARE VOTING FOR THEIR OWN
LA RAZA WELFARE STATE like MEXIFORNIA!
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POVERTY IN THE BURBS…you are next and an illegal is next in your
job!
OBAMAnomics at work: SOARING RICHES FOR THE 1%, SOARING
UNEMPLOYMENT FOR AMERICANS (LEGALS), SOARING PROFITS and CRIMES FOR OBAMA’S
BANKSTER DONORS and SOARING TAXES TO PAY FOR MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE IN OUR
BORDERS!
Much of the rise in suburban poverty is due to the impoverishment
of working families already living there. The decline in manufacturing, the
Great Recession, and widespread foreclosures have left many longtime suburban
families reeling
Much of the rise in suburban poverty is due to the
impoverishment of working families already living there. The decline in
manufacturing, the Great Recession, and widespread foreclosures have left many
longtime suburban families reeling.
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