1-in-3 Amazon employees are on food stamps in Arizona
August 26, 2018 | BPR Wire | Print Article

Thousands of Amazon employees rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, to feed themselves.

One in three, or 1,800, Amazon employees in Arizona, one in 10 (700) in Ohio, and one in 10 in Pennsylvania, or more than 1,000, are on food stamps, Business Insider reported Saturday.


The numbers are “misleading because they include people who only worked for Amazon for a short period of time and/or who chose to work part-time,” an Amazon spokesperson told The Washington Post Thursday. “We have hundreds of full-time roles available, however, some prefer part-time for the flexibility or other personal reasons,”

Democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has been a vocal critic of company’s like Amazon. He is introducing legislation that would require large businesses like Amazon to cover the cost of food stamps, The Washington Post reported.

Sanders slammed Amazon, whose CEO Jeff Bezos is the wealthiest person in modern history, in a tweet Friday for not paying its employees enough to feed themselves without tax payer assistance.

Bezos is worth about $157 billion — $59.8 billion more than Bill Gates, the second richest person in the world, according the the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

“There is something fundamentally wrong when thousands of Amazon workers are on food stamps while their boss, Jeff Bezos, is the richest man in the world,” Sanders wrote.

Amazon has risen in the rankings of the world’s largest employers with significant portions of their employees on food stamps, joining Walmart and McDonald’s, Business Insider noted.

“We encourage anyone to compare our pay and benefits to other retailers. Amazon is proud to have created over 130,000 new jobs last year alone. These are good jobs with highly competitive pay and full benefits. In the U.S., the average hourly wage for a full-time associate in our fulfillment centers, including cash, stock, and incentive bonuses, is over $15/hour before overtime,” an Amazon spokesperson told Business Insider.

“That’s in addition to our full benefits package that includes health, vision and dental insurance, retirement, generous parental leave, and skills training for in-demand jobs through our Career Choice program, which has over 16,000 participants.”

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Just another reason, I avoid this job killing company.

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Originally posted by downtownv:

Just another reason, I avoid this job killing company.

I'm finally buying myself a Lie-Nielsen wood planer. And I notice yesterday that not a single of their products is available on Amazon. Jeff does not yet control everything. But it is creepy, how his wealth has leapt up exponentially.

https://www.lie-nielsen.com

I’m curious why some choose to work part time yet are using SNAP. I really wish we had no govt supported welfare in the US. People would be more willing to work when their next meal depended upon it. I have relatives that take advantage of welfare, the system that pays you not to work.

This is how we do things in Texas, Buccees is nowhere near as big as Amazon it it’s growing. If you’ve ever been through Texas you’ve probably seen Buccees, here is a link showing their pay, it’s pretty darn good consider the type of work.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/a...e-stores-jobs-2018-6

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Originally posted by mrvmax:
I’m curious why some choose to work part time yet are using SNAP.

Maybe a single parent who chooses to work at least part time, instead of being a totally unemployed welfare recipient?

I've had employees for years tell me they can only work X amount of hours or they'll lose their benefits. I've had employees for years, working the system.

I wonder how many of these employees spend way too much money on new cars, televisions, sports packages for said televisions, the newest iPhones, apartments/home that are out of their price range, etc....

There is nothing wrong with, nor dishonorable, about driving a beater car, eating Ramen, or living in a trailer, whilst in the process of bettering yourself. That is lost on an entire generation of people.

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Originally posted by mrvmax:
I really wish we had no govt supported welfare in the US. People would be more willing to work when their next meal depended upon it.

Yep, those newly minted enlistees in the military with wives and kids sure need to get a job.

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Originally posted by craigcpa:

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Originally posted by mrvmax:
I really wish we had no govt supported welfare in the US. People would be more willing to work when their next meal depended upon it.

Yep, those newly minted enlistees in the military with wives and kids sure need to get a job.

Nobody was talking about military members, not sure what article you are reading and I’m not sure how you equate being a part of our military to being on welfare. If you cannot figure out the difference from enlisting in the military from living off welfare let me know and I’ll explain using simple words.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by mrvmax:
I’m curious why some choose to work part time yet are using SNAP.

Maybe a single parent who chooses to work at least part time, instead of being a totally unemployed welfare recipient?

So why should the tax payers subsidize an able bodied person just because they don’t want to work full time? If they are capable of working part time then why can’t they work full time? Being a single parent is irrelevant. The article stated that there were full time openings yet some chose not to work full time. The context of the article leads to the assumption that those working part time are utilizing SNAP. I’m sick of having to work to pay for the leaches that live off our tax dollars. Welfare should be very short term and not a lifestyle.

and here is the reason why,

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Originally posted by mrvmax:

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Originally posted by craigcpa:

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Originally posted by mrvmax:
I really wish we had no govt supported welfare in the US. People would be more willing to work when their next meal depended upon it.

Yep, those newly minted enlistees in the military with wives and kids sure need to get a job.

Nobody was talking about military members, not sure what article you are reading and I’m not sure how you equate being a part of our military to being on welfare. If you cannot figure out the difference from enlisting in the military from living off welfare let me know and I’ll explain using simple words.

He was referring to the fact that an E-1, E-2, and E-3 with spouse and kids don't make enough and actually qualify for food stamps in most locations

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Originally posted by mark60:
I've had employees for years tell me they can only work X amount of hours or they'll lose their benefits. I've had employees for years, working the system.

THIS. "I refuse to work full time because I will lose my free tax payer provided benefits. I can sit on my ass and get paid, or I can go to work and get the same pay. Which would you do?"

I really hate what we have become and what we have created. We need a collapse and a reset button. You don't work, you starve to death. Simple as that. The takers will try to take from the wrong person, and end up bayoneted at the front door.

That chart should enrage every single taxpayer.

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Originally posted by sjp:
He was referring to the fact that an E-1, E-2, and E-3 with spouse and kids don't make enough and actually qualify for food stamps in most locations

I'm not looking to start an argument on what these young soldiers SHOULD be paid, just what they are paid.

E1 - E3 pay = $16-$1900/month
BAQ (in MT) with dependents = $867/month
Separate Rats = $369/month

So, give or take, an E1 with dependents makes $2836/month and an E3 with dependents makes $3136/month.

You can't live on that without food stamps or welfare? Really?

ETA: Just looked at an old LES from January 1990 and plugged the numbers into an inflation calculator. Between base pay, BAQ, and separate rats, I was making less than what equivalent soldiers are making today, yet...we lived pretty good. We weren't getting rich, mind you, but we didn't want for anything.

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Originally posted by mrvmax:

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Originally posted by craigcpa:

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Originally posted by mrvmax:
I really wish we had no govt supported welfare in the US. People would be more willing to work when their next meal depended upon it.

Yep, those newly minted enlistees in the military with wives and kids sure need to get a job.

Nobody was talking about military members, not sure what article you are reading and I’m not sure how you equate being a part of our military to being on welfare. If you cannot figure out the difference from enlisting in the military from living off welfare let me know and I’ll explain using simple words.

You made a general statement about "welfare", and I simply pointed out that, as an example, our military, an E-1, with wife and child, AUTOMATICALLY qualifies for SNAP. This is the pay chart, and because SNAP is state administered hereis my state's eligibility amounts. Your state's eligibility will be similar.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
That chart should enrage every single taxpayer.

The chart and programs don't enrage me at all, their execution does. I think something like that should be available to single mothers, for a period, not as a lifestyle. I rather a mom be working and earning some of her living than not working at all. I'm willing to chip in for daycare, housing, or fresh food. I have a problem with when I see the abuse of the system and it's use as supplemental lifetime income.

If I was a widower with a child and no prospects for a better life and I had a choice between a $29,000 and $40,000 job it would be a hard decision to not do what was best for me and my family and take the assistance.

I've personally seen the abuse, it's maddening. I don't know how you help those who need it and have an upward mobility in that chart while denying the scamers and abusers that will forever suck on the teat of the taxpayer.

I'd love it if these programs were capped at X years or Y dollars. Some people with a little help pull themselves up by their boot straps, a lot will never. I'd sure like to help the ones that help themselves.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by mrvmax:
I’m curious why some choose to work part time yet are using SNAP.

Maybe a single parent who chooses to work at least part time, instead of being a totally unemployed welfare recipient?

Or, someone on food stamps who is gaming the system.

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Originally posted by craigcpa:

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Originally posted by mrvmax:
I really wish we had no govt supported welfare in the US. People would be more willing to work when their next meal depended upon it.

Yep, those newly minted enlistees in the military with wives and kids sure need to get a job.

Swing and a miss... If you want to start a different thread about the topic we can participate in that.

The lowest rungs of the military have always been low paying. Is that the correct way to do things? I don't know but anyone with 2 brain cells is aware of the fact. The way the system is set up a single enlistee can make it through life just fine as far as eating in the mess hall, sleeping in the barracks etc.

If said enlistee had kept his dick in his pants or her legs closed they wouldn't be in that position. Why should the entire pay system be upended just because the enlistee wasn't smart enough to live correctly? Last I checked, our military is a volunteer organization. Enlistees CHOOSE to put themselves in that position.

It is by its' very nature an entry level position. There are very few career paths in any company where you can afford a family on an entry level positions pay.

Mark

I don't think "single mom's" should all be grouped in one big category. There are some single mom's that fell upon circumstances and are trying/want to make things work and there are some baby factory single mom's.

As long as you can get your stuff cheap and fast- Who Cares Right?

This is Amazon. It cares so much it has it's own propaganda branch.

http://fortune.com/2018/08/24/...ambassadors-twitter/

The reality is less than the impression.