A story in The New York Times shows that a new report from the Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education confirms on a national scale what a recent Colorado Fiscal Institute study found: Large employers have been shifting their costs onto taxpayers by creating legions of low-paying jobs.

The Berkeley study estimates that U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for $152.8 billion in spending on public assistance for people employed by large companies at poverty-level wages. These are people who frequently are working full-time but still cannot get make ends meet without public assistance.

Read the Berkeley study here.

Read the CFI report here.