More than ever, taxpayers subsidize low wages paid by corporate giants

Workers for the corporate giant increasingly have to rely on public support to supplement their low wages.| Rogelio V. Solis / APWASHINGTON—Call it corporate welfare. “American taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize the starvation wages of large corporations like Walmart and Amazon. The overall number of Amazon workers who needed one or both of those forms of federal aid tripled. The top four firms atop its Medicaid list were Walmart, Amazon, Dollar General and Waffle House. The University of Indiana was fourth on that state’s Medicaid list, with 2.015 recipients, GAO calculated.