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by closeparen 3380 days ago
But they already have to pay welfare for those people, right? Or is Amazon bringing new low income residents?
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Exactly. It's $10/hr less that has to be covered than before. Plus the ware house drives local commercial traffic, workers have to eat, etc.
So they weren't eating before?
No the point is that even at $10/hour it's better than the same people not working at all.

Do you disagree?