{"id":385,"date":"2014-02-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/?p=385"},"modified":"2014-02-25T02:34:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:34:43","slug":"385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2014\/02\/25\/385\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Food Wages Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is a follow up to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2013\/11\/05\/why-low-fast-food-wages-really-matter\/\">Tom&#8217;s contribution<\/a> on November 5th about \u201cWhy Fast Food Wages Really Matter,\u201d where he pointed out that &#8220;over 50% of fast food workers are enrolled in at least one public assistance program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, McDonald\u2019s\u2014the prototypical fast food industry player\u2014posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/topics\/wealth-poverty\/final-note\/mcdonalds-advice-hungry\">advice to employees<\/a> on their website: &#8220;If you&#8217;re hungry, break your food into pieces. You&#8217;ll eat less and still feel full.\u201d In the same vein, McDonald\u2019s has also encouraged employees to consider food stamps to supplement their pay.<\/p>\n<p>These observations raise Tom\u2019s question all over again: &#8220;Is that really worth a Big Mac that\u2019s a buck cheaper?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is a follow up to Tom&#8217;s contribution on November 5th about \u201cWhy Fast Food Wages Really Matter,\u201d where he pointed out that &#8220;over 50% of fast food workers are enrolled in at least one public assistance program.\u201d A few months ago, McDonald\u2019s\u2014the prototypical fast food industry player\u2014posted some advice to employees on their website: &#8220;If you&#8217;re hungry, break your food into pieces. You&#8217;ll eat less and still feel full.\u201d In the same vein, McDonald\u2019s has also encouraged employees to consider food stamps to supplement their pay. These observations raise Tom\u2019s question all over again: &#8220;Is that really worth <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2014\/02\/25\/385\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Fast Food Wages Part II<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"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-385","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\/385","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}