“Starvation wages”

“ ‘Starvation wages’: Walmart and McDonald’s among firms with the most workers on food stamps and Medicaid, according to a Bernie Sanders-commissioned report” is an article written by Grace Dean and published on the Business Insider website in November 2020. 

Information in this source

The source provides information about what it is like to live at the current minimum wage level in the US.

The difficulty of living at the current minimum wage level

The source shows the results of a report commissioned by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The report shows that thousands of employees who work full-time and earn the minimum wage depend on federal assistance to afford food and healthcare: “Around 70% of people on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), food stamps and Medicaid work full-time” (ll. 6-7).

The difficul...

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