Amazon gig worker slavery by the numbers

“American taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize the starvation wages of Amazon. It is beyond unacceptable that these corporations, owned by some of the wealthiest people on the planet, are receiving corporate welfare from the federal government.” - Senator Bernie Sanders - WaPo

Jeff Bezos is worth $244 billion (that's $244,000,000,000 !)

His “effective” tax rates on his wealth growth is roughly 1%. - Factually

Amazon earned $59 billion on sales of $638 billion - LA Times

Amazon pays gig workers about $19/hour

About 13 million working Americans rely of Medicaid for healthcare in and 10.6 million rely on SNAP for groceries.

About 42 million Americans got food assistance worth about $190 per person or $350 per household. A household must earn less than about $35,000 a year for a family of three to qualify for SNAP.

About 71 million rely on Medicaid for healthcare. To qualify an individual has to make about $21,000 per year. The Republican One Big Beautiful Bill makes it even harder to get Medicaid.

Amazon has part-time employees and flex employees who "qualify for Medicaid as opposed to full time employees." - Nevada Independent

29% of those in the industry earned less than their state's minimum wage, while 14% made less than the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour. 20% said they had gone hungry because they could not afford enough food, and 31% had been unable to pay their utility bills in full. - TechSpot

Follow the money

Socialized capitalism

It’s one thing to say, ‘We’re against socialism,’ but it can’t be socialized capitalism for the corporations and no safety net for individuals.- Barry Ritholtz

TakeAway: Stop Republican welfare for billionaires.

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