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Ilhan Omar
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Hey @washingtonpost -

Thank you for drawing attention to the massive pay gap at McDonald’s and the poverty wages of its workers! washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
Let’s dig into why that is. The CEO-to-worker pay gap at McDonald’s is 3,101 to 1 globally—the largest of any company surveyed.

As I noted in committee, McDonald’s CEO earns $21.8 million *per year*.

The median worker worldwide earns just $7,017. nrn.com/finance/sizing…
Now let’s look at how McDonald's treats its U.S. workers.

In 2015, the company promised to pay workers at least $1 above the local minimum wage. According to their own employees, they broke that promise. fortune.com/2018/04/02/mcd…
So how much do they pay?

Per Payscale data (which the Post cites), McDonalds pays $8.31/hr for a “fast food worker.”

That’s $17,285 for a full-time worker who takes no time off—a poverty wage. payscale.com/research/US/Em…
For context, the living wage in the United States was $16.07 in 2017, almost double the average wages of McDonald's fast food workers.
livingwage.mit.edu/articles/31-ba…
In fact, just *10 percent* of McDonald’s workers in the U.S. make a living wage. chicagotribune.com/business/ct-bi…
And CEO @steveeasterbrook isn’t an outlier. Since 1978, CEO's have seen a 937% increase in earnings.

Workers have have only received an 11.2% increase. cnbc.com/2018/01/22/her…
Millions of workers in the U.S. are struggling just to put food on the table, while McDonald’s CEO makes $21.8 million a year. That’s just wrong.

We need to #RaisetheWage so that no one is the richest country on earth lives in poverty. ✊🏽
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Our homelessness crisis is not a crisis of scarcity, but a crisis of moral clarity.
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We cannot hand pick leaders for other countries on behalf of multinational corporate interests. The legislature cannot seize power from the President, and Venezuela's Supreme Court has declared their actions unconstitutional.
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We can’t afford to get involved in costly interventions abroad when tens of millions struggle to access housing, healthcare, and clean water right here at home. U.S. meddling abroad always ends badly for us, and the people we claim to be “liberating”.
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Hi @bariweiss,

You are correct when you say,

“Perhaps Ms. Omar is sincerely befuddled and not simply deflecting”

In all sincerity, it was after my CNN interview that I heard from Jewish orgs. that my use of the word “Hypnotize” and the ugly sentiment it holds was offensive.
That statement came in the context of the Gaza War.

It’s now apparent to me that I spent lots of energy putting my 2012 tweet in context and little energy is disavowing the anti-semitic trope I unknowingly used, which is unfortunate and offensive.
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I will not shy away of criticism of any government when I see injustice —whether it be Saudi Arabia, Somalia, even our own government!
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