McOutrage: poverty wages, $30m corporate jet

<div class="mod" style="background-color: rgba(228, 236, 217, 0.64); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Helvetica', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; margin: 0; padding: 15px;"><h2 style="color: black; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 12px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizccEzThvbZJjItz9eKHEc-deH1Oy4aI9MrjlUq4j71WIxhoqs1sll6_XL95zdkD6WUEDlI7mxGYZMtpEXmd35cqW34N8Ri_KG_5rhE05JhjEBGiTD91lZMtZAC-XZJ35o1wvkbVPXARmg/s1600/3F44EEB3B35AFE5786C2781F4F879D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizccEzThvbZJjItz9eKHEc-deH1Oy4aI9MrjlUq4j71WIxhoqs1sll6_XL95zdkD6WUEDlI7mxGYZMtpEXmd35cqW34N8Ri_KG_5rhE05JhjEBGiTD91lZMtZAC-XZJ35o1wvkbVPXARmg/s320/3F44EEB3B35AFE5786C2781F4F879D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="mod_author" style="color: #580000; line-height: 1.6; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>By Isaiah J. Poole</b></span></span></div><div class="mod_author" style="color: #580000; line-height: 1.6; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://ourfuture.org/">ourfuture.org</a> </b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><br /><div style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>McDonald’s says it can’t afford to pay her and the company’s more than 700,000 other American nonmanagement employees a wage that would lift them above the poverty line. What McDonald’s Corp. can afford to do, though, is buy itself a new corporate jet. </b></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>That’s right. Bloomberg News reported earlier this week that McDonald’s Corp. has purchased for the use of its executives a Bombardier Challenger 605, a 12-seat plane that goes for between $27 million and $35 million ... Meanwhile ... other McDonald’s employees have been offered a “McResources” telephone help line to call that offers them helpful advice if they are having problems meeting their expenses on their minimum-wage McPaycheck. </b></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The advice: Sign up for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“food stamp”) benefits and Medicaid ... it is criminal that CEOs of corporations like McDonald’s pay their full-time workers wages that keep them below the poverty line.</b></span></span></div></div>

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By Isaiah J. Poole ourfuture.org McDonald’s says it can’t afford to pay her and the company’s more than 700,000 other American nonmanagem...

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