Topic

Labor share of output

The portion of national economic output paid to workers as wages and benefits, tracked by statistical agencies as a measure of how production is divided between labor and capital.

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Amazon earned $6.3m of profit for each sampled worker it has on food stamps

The GAO counted 12,346 Amazon workers on SNAP across eleven states, close to triple its 2020 finding, over a stretch in which the company's annual profit went from $11.6bn to $77.7bn. Labor's share of output is 52.8%.

Publishers:fortune.com

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