More Welfare for Wall Street: One in Three Bank Tellers Need Public Assistance
Almost a third of the country?s half-million bank tellers rely on some form of public assistance to get by, according to a report due out Wednesday.
Researchers say taxpayers are doling out nearly $900 million a year to supplement the wages of bank tellers, which amounts to a public subsidy for multibillion-dollar banks. The workers collect $105 million in food stamps, $250 million through the earned income tax credit and $534 million by way of Medicaid and the Children?s Health Insurance Program, according to the University of California at Berkeley?s Labor Center.
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