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by criticas 1368 days ago
Wage Theft? A 2017 report claimed that US wage theft (by companies against employees) was 100 times the size of reported robberies ($50 B vs $438M). https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-bil...
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H8crilA 1366 days ago
US GDP is about $21T, so about 420 times bigger. Or to put it differently, about 0.2% of the GDP.

Also, wage theft isn't fraud exactly.

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