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See which companies drive Americans to the government for help.","datePublished":"2018-07-06","dateModified":"2018-07-26","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/author\/admin#Person","name":"admin","url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/author\/admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26111862ca029071a00a76fae48c51b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26111862ca029071a00a76fae48c51b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"FoodStamps.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","width":100,"height":100},"url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Articles\/Article\/ID\/168\/employers-drive-their-employees-to-use-food-stamps","about":["Food Stamp","SNAP Survival Guide"],"wordCount":666,"keywords":["168"],"articleBody":"Being an employee in today\u2019s economic climate is no easy task, as the number of solid, middle-class jobs are drying up quickly. As they do, the gap between the wealthy and poor grows wider, with more and more joining the latter in startling numbers. However, there are a number of companies out there with decent enough annual revenue to avoid sending their workers straight into a food stamps line\u2026but don\u2019t. Here they are.WalmartWalmart made\u00a0$10 billion in web sales\u00a0last year, an increase of 30.3% from the previous year. In terms of net sales for 2013, that number was a\u00a0huge$274 billion. So what\u2019s their reason for\u00a0paying their employees so little, they feel they have no choice but to host their own food drive? They claim they\u2019d have to raise prices, but\u00a0Forbes\u00a0has calculated that hiking the minimum wage to $12\/hour would only mean a\u00a0one-time\u00a0price increase of 1.1%.It\u2019s pretty hard to listen to any\u00a0rationalizations\u00a0that come out Sam Walton (founder of Walmart) six heirs\u2019 mouths: together, they\u2019re valued at $144.7 billion. Just wondering \u2014 did they have to rise to their pedestal on minimum wage, or did their father help them out with his riches and advantages?McDonald\u2019sThey caught huge flak when they released their\u00a0budget guide\u00a0and advised\u00a0their own employees\u00a0to get a second job to cover the gaps, and budget only $70 for health insurance and heating (not to mention the $600\/month for mortgage or rent). Since then, they\u2019ve changed their tune\u2026by telling their own employees to look to the government for help.While Walmart continues to hold up the pretense that their jobs pay for enough, McDonald\u2019s is saying in not so many words their jobs don\u2019t.\u00a0Reading between the lines, McDonald\u2019s\u2019 message is \u201cwe won\u2019t pay you enough, so fill out a welfare application the same time you fill one out for us.\u201dDollar GeneralFor anyone who\u2019s looking for a job that pays minimum wage, doesn\u2019t mind getting their hours cut, and has full availability year round because they don\u2019t want a second job, stop reading this article and head to your nearest Dollar General to apply.For\u00a0everyone else, your average salary will be $7.51\/hour, which is $15,620.80 for the year. Want to know what your future CEO pulled in a couple years ago? A total of $1.94 million, or 125 times what you\u2019d see on your paycheck.Radio ShackThis entry is\u00a0almost the same\u00a0as the previous one, except you can expect to make an extra 21 cents an hour while your CEO goes to sleep with visions of $5.6 million dancing in his head. And if you think being promoted to a manager will net you more take-home pay, you\u2019d be right \u2014 because having to work 50-60 hours a week does that.DISHWorking in retail doesn\u2019t seem to be a path to comfort and security, so maybe you\u2019ve started looking at service jobs, like internet and telecom. However, you may want to stay away from the place Businessweek called \u201cThe Meanest Company in America\u201d.Why?For starters, they pay extremely poorly. 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