Publications by Jeremy Thompson
Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Jobs in the Fast-Food Industry
October 15, 2013 • Brief • By Sylvia A. Allegretto, Marc Doussard, Dave Graham-Squire, Ken Jacobs, Dan Thompson and Jeremy Thompson
Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of enrollments in America’s major public benefits programs are from working families. But many of them work in jobs that pay wages so low that their…