Tag: North Carolina

Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages Paid by Corporate Giants

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages Paid by Corporate Giants

Upon the study’s release Wednesday, Warren Gunnels, staff director and policy adviser for Sanders, tweeted: “The real looting in America is the Walton family becoming $63 billion richer during a pandemic, while paying wages so low that 14,541 of their workers in 9 states need food stamps — all subsidized by U.S. taxpayers. Yes. The Walton family is the real welfare queen in America.”

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Walmart and McDonald’s have the most workers on food stamps and Medicaid, new study shows

How COVID-19 stimulus money will end up in U.S. tobacco farmers’ pockets

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How COVID-19 stimulus money will end up in U.S. tobacco farmers’ pockets

U.S. government aid payments to tobacco farmers will be channeled through a new account within the office of the agriculture secretary, an unusual move that bypasses the normal mechanism for distributing farm aid and stokes concerns about how the government is using COVID-19 stimulus.

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The payments would benefit farmers in North Carolina, a swing state in the Nov. 3 presidential election and the country’s top tobacco producer. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are locked in a dead heat among likely voters in North Carolina, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday.

Election ploy!