Hearing: Should Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages at Large Profitable Corporations?

Full Committee Hearing

Date: Thursday, February 25, 2021 Time: 10:15 AM Location: SD 608

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Hearing of the Committee on the Budget
On: Thursday, February 25, 2021, 10:15 AM
In: SD-608
To consider: “Why Should Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages at Large Profitable Corporations?”

Panel 1
Mr. Craig Jelinek
Chief Executive Officer
Costco

Panel 2
Mr. Terrence Wise
McDonald’s worker
Kansas City, MO

Ms. Cynthia Murray
Walmart worker
Hyattsville, MD

Ms. Thea Lee
President
Economic Policy Institute

Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin
President
American Action Forum

Mr. Carl Sobocinski
President
Table 301 Restaurant Group

Mr. Jacob L. Vigdor, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Policy & Governance
University of Washington

Panel 3
Ms. Cindy Brown Barnes
Government Accountability Office
Director of Education, Workforce, and Income Security

By order of the Chairman
Bernard Sanders