The low wages paid to fast-food workers are costing taxpayers $7 billion a year in public assistance, according to a study, "Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Jobs in the Fast Food
Industry" released Tuesday by the UC Berkeley Labor Center. People working in fast-food jobs are more likely to live in or near poverty than any other job sector, with 43% having an income two times
below the federal poverty level or less.
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