An audio recording released by labor activists Wednesday afternoon captures a staffer for McDonald’s’ “McResources Line” instructing a McDonald’s worker how to apply for public assistance.
The audio – excerpted in the campaign video below – records a conversation between Chicago worker Nancy Salgado, a ten-year employee currently making the Illinois state minimum wage of $8.25, and a counselor staffing the company’s “McResources” 1-800 number for McDonald’s workers. The McResources staffer offers her a number to “ask about things like food pantries” and tells her she “would most likely be eligible for SNAP benefits” which she explains are “food stamps.” After Salgado asks about “the doctor,” the staffer asks, “Did you try to get on Medicaid?” She notes it’s “health coverage for low income or no income adults and children.”Salon
Video: McDonald’s tells workers to get food stamps A new recording captures the fast food giant's worker 1-800 number touting public assistance
Josh Eidelson
I suppose the conservative answer is to cut all welfare payments in order to force companies to pay a living wage, and that welfare just encourages companies to do this.
Didn't Mike Norman just outline with reference to an article about Walmart outsources it's health care to Medicaid !!!
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ReplyDeleteWal-Mart is trying to get its $4.99 cooked rotisserie chickens qualified under "Food Stamps" and McDonalds is trying to get their 'Dollar Menu' qualified for the same....
They are ALL hypocrites/morons...
rsp,
McD's probably want to get their workers qualified for 'food stamps' and then get the dollar menu put on the qualified list and then their employees can eat there "for free" and they don't have to give the employees free food...
ReplyDeleteWe could keep the mimimum wage where it is at, and then have more foreign trade 'to create jobs' and reduce prices, lower govt deficits and cut taxes, deflation works!
ReplyDeleteThe problem with deflation in a private debt-driven economy is that debts are nominal and the cost of making payments doesn't decline with declining price-wage level. Result is a Fisher debt-deflation as forced liquidation to meet cash flow and rise in bankruptcy collapses asset valuation. Unless denomination of debt is switched from nominal to real, deflation is an economy killer in a private debt-driven society.
ReplyDeleteBut that is the current policy! Obama said his primary goal is to get the EU-FT and TPP through before his end of term, Repubs want lower taxes and smaller deficits. Raising minimum wage failed to get a single Republican vote in March and even was opposed by several Dems.
ReplyDeleteRight. The Fed is trying to counter overly tight fiscal policy with very loose monetary policy but it is not working. The trend is still disinflationary and deflation is still a threat.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, inflationistas are betting on hyperinflation.