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mk  ·  4087 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fast-Food Wages Come With a $7 Billion Side of Public Assistance - Businessweek

Quite a bit higher:

    California taxpayers are spending $86 million a year providing healthcare and other public assistance to the state’s 44,000 Wal-Mart employees, according to a new study by UC Berkeley’s Institute for Industrial Relations.