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Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares
“These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.
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Working Americans are receiving the lowest share of economic output in U.S. history, at 52.8%, the lowest level recorded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics since 1947.
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