National Employment Law Project

National Employment Law Project: This ends up costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars a year, the study said, according to The Star. In a concurrent report, the pro-labor National Employment Law Project found that the 10 largest fast-food companies in the United States cost taxpayers more than $3.8 billion U.S. each year in public assistance because the workers do not make enough to pay for basic necessities themselves and NEW YORK More than half of low-wage workers employed by the largest U.S. fast-food restaurants earn so little that they must rely on public assistance to get by, according to a study released on Tuesday. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and public benefit programs show 52 per cent of fast-food cooks, cashiers and other front-line staff had relied on at least one form of public assistance, such as Medicaid, food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit program, between 2007 and 2011, researchers at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Illinois said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.