In a shocking (to no one but apparently republican's) study, most food stamp and Medicaid recipients are not lazy welfare queens!!!
https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-21-45#summary
https://www.gao.gov/assets/720/710203.pdf
Approximately 70 percent of adult wage earners in both programs worked full-time hours (i.e., 35 hours or more) on a weekly basis.
In a second shocking (again only to you know whom) result, the same companies top every state reviewed....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...gn=wp_business
In the nine states that responded about SNAP benefits — Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee and Washington — Walmart was found to have employed about 14,500 workers receiving the benefit, followed by McDonald’s with 8,780, according to Sanders’s team. In six states that reported Medicaid enrollees, Walmart again topped the list, with 10,350 employees, followed by McDonald’s with 4,600.
See if you guys notice a trend here? I'll just list a few of the results of the top companies
1.Walmart
2 McDonald’s
3 Publix
4 Waffle House
5 Kroger
6 Amazon
7 Dollar General
8 Home Depot
9 Wendy’s
10 Uber Technologies
1.Walmart
2 McDonald’s
3 Indiana University
4 Goodwill
5 Kroger
6 Amazon
7 Elwood Staffing
8 Dollar Tree, Inc.
9 Dollar General
10 Burger King
1 Hannaford’s
2 Walmart
3 Maine Medical Center
4 Dunkin’
5 McDonald’s
6 University of Maine
7 Circle K 181
8 Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc.
9 L.L. Bean
10 Goodwill
1 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
2 PCA Quality Home Care Workforce Council
3 Stop & Shop
4 Walmart
5 Market Basket
6 CVS Pharmacy
7 Amazon
8 Target
9 Home Depot
1 Walmart
2 McDonald’s
3 Dollar General
4 Express Employment Professionals
5 Sonic 489
6 Macy’s
7 Amazon
8 Braum’s Ice Cream
9 Choctaw Nation
10 Dollar Tree, Inc.
Trillion dollars + worth of companies making hundreds of billions in profit. Walmart family alone worth 180 billion dollars. Trillions in profits over the last few decades.
Taxpayers stuck with supporting full time workers meals and healthcare because these Billion dollar companies refuse to pay a fair wage and offer affordable benefits.
On top of all this the republican party wants to cut benefits, make getting and staying on benefits harder and abolish Medicaid expansion that helped over 12 million more people get access to healthcare.
These corporations excuse "we pay the min wage, so tough".
Even though one would expect these companies to top the list because they are the largest employers in each state, the sheer size of their profits should make it so none of them are anywhere near the top of the list. That kind of wage pressure by just the top 10 would result in most of the private marketplace adjusting their wages and would result in a huge drop in people on "welfare".