Federal contracting jobs doubled between 1996 & 2009 for low-paying jobs, which means taxpayers are subsidizing these jobs twice!

  

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Testimony on Low-Wage Work: How Our Tax Dollars Drive Inequality by Amy Traub

 "For our report “Underwriting Bad Jobs: How Our Tax Dollars Are Funding Low-Wage Work and Fueling Inequality,” my colleague Robert Hiltonsmith and I analyzed data on federal contractors, health care spending, Small Business Administration loans, federal infrastructure grants and Public Buildings Service property leases.[1] We found that through these sources of federal funding, nearly two million private sector workers are employed, doing jobs we have decided are worthy of public funding, for wages of $12 an hour less, in some cases much less. There is no single private sector employer responsible for this many low wage employees." Read more -- http://bit.ly/16KCRaB.