Federal Contractors Employ More Low-Wage Workers Than Walmart and McDonald's Combined

[BelgianMadCow]

Many are barely surviving, and taxpayers are the ones subsidizing this low-wage economy, according to a study by public policy organization Demos. Data shows that hundreds of billions of public funds go to private companies that pay low wages. There are more than half a million low-wage private sector jobs funded by federal contracts. Demos found that government contracts support almost two million low-wage jobs. That's more than McDonald's and Walmart combined.

DESVARIEUX: Workers are calling for help from President Obama, demanding the president sign an executive order mandating government contractors to pay a higher wage, similar to how President Johnson signed an executive order in 1965 mandating government contractors not discriminate against prospective employees based on race.

Fast forward almost 50 years and the fight for fair pay continues.

from the Real News Network. Unsurprisingly, Bernie Sanders was at the protest.

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