Working families get 38 percent of food-stamp spending

Working families get 38 cents of each $1 in food-stamp benefits, says the UC-Berkeley Center for Labor Research in a research brief, “The high public cost of low wages.” The paper says hourly wages for the median American worker “were just 5 percent higher in 2013 than they were in 1979” when adjusted for inflation. For the… » Read More

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