A large number of Amazon workers rely on food stamps for assistance

The latest troubling revelation regarding the online retail giant's working conditions.

LUKE BARNES APR 20, 2018, 4:18 PM UPDATED: APR 20, 2018, 6:36 PM

Over the past year, U.S. cities and states have been tripping head-over-heels in an effort to be the host of the next Amazon headquarters. Last year, New Jersey approved an incentive package that would give Amazon tax breaks worth $7 billion if it moved to Newark. Philadelphia has offered $2 billion in tax exemptions over 10 years, Georgia $1 billion, and Maryland a whopping $8.5 billion.

But while state lawmakers continue to one-up each other in the race to host Amazon’s new HQ, a very different picture has emerged at the lower rungs of the company, where warehouse employees are so underpaid that they already incredibly reliant on state subsidies to survive.

According to the New Food Economy, Amazon ranks high on the list of employers with massive numbers of employees enrolled in SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as food stamps). In Ohio, around one in 10 Amazon employees uses SNAP; in Pennsylvania, about one in nine. In Arizona, nearly one in three Amazon employees is enrolled in the food stamp program.

Later this year, Amazon will start accepting food stamps for online grocery orders, from which it stands to benefit enormously as one of the nation’s top retailers. That means the company will be the recipient of government assistance (in the form of tax breaks and incentives) while its own workers are forced to rely upon that same program to survive.

https://thinkprogress.org/amazon-workers-rely-on-food-stamps-24ab86dd6495/


Let me first say I am not a fan of this fucking company

Second......................the same asshole that was confirmed by the United States Senate (Sonny Perdue) basically said human beings that cab't work should eat dog food, and then the traitor supporter and the traitor attacks Amazon, what the fuck is wrong with this picture.............a fucking a lot------------he the sexual predator should not have a fucking cabinet and he is an fucking psychopath .......................and a right wing congress and now state legislatures like Kentucky for example are passing legislation to deny food to people if they cannot work for there food..................

And then third..................

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2018/01/usda-chief-to-people-on-food-stamps-get-a-job/

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/petition-asks-that-food-stamps-be-accepted-at-amazon-go-store/692163072

http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/the-high-public-cost-of-low-wages/



November cannot get here fast enough