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The Dirty Little Secret That Fast-Food Companies Don’t Want You To Know

With all of this talk in Washington about cutting back on spending, you’d think they would get to work raising the minimum wage so that fast-food workers wouldn’t need help just to stay alive. You’d be wrong.

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