{"id":29,"date":"2013-11-05T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T08:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/?p=29"},"modified":"2013-11-05T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:42:55","slug":"why-low-fast-food-wages-really-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2013\/11\/05\/why-low-fast-food-wages-really-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Low Fast Food Wages Really Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-10-15\/mcdonalds-low-wages-come-with-a-7-billion-side-of-welfare\">According to an article in Business Week<\/a>, over 50% of fast food workers are enrolled in at least one public assistance program, a substantially higher proportion than any other industry. The low wages paid to these workers cost American taxpayers an average of $7 Billion a year. Is that really worth a Big Mac that&#8217;s a buck cheaper?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in Business Week, over 50% of fast food workers are enrolled in at least one public assistance program, a substantially higher proportion than any other industry. The low wages paid to these workers cost American taxpayers an average of $7 Billion a year. Is that really worth a Big Mac that&#8217;s a buck cheaper?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-labor","tag-minimum-wage","tag-social-welfare-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}