Fast-food workers in the US, including full-time employees, receive $7 billion a year in public assistance according to UC Berkeley Labor Center. People working in fast-food are more likely to live in poverty than jobs, regardless of the proportion of part-time to full-time, in any other sector. About one quarter of fast-food employees are adults, single or married, with children who could not survive without public assistance such as Medicaid and food stamps. The National Restaurant Association, of which many fast-food companies are members, defended itself from the implications of the report stating that its jobs are one of the ?best paths for realizing the American dream?.
See "Low fast-food wages come at high cost to US taxpayers, says report", Karen McVeigh, Guardian Unlimited (UK), October 15, 2013