States are giving unprecedented tax breaks to corporations—but unlike welfare recipients, Nation writer Greg Kaufmann says, "nobody's talking about drug-testing them." Kaufmann joins a panel on The Melissa Harris-Perry Show to break down the hypocrisies of government largesse. "We would like to think that for all these tax breaks, we'd be seeing some good jobs created," he says. Instead, one in three Americans is languishing below twice the poverty line.

—James Cersonsky

McDonald's guest workers are making close to nothing in the name of "cultural exchange." Read Josh Eidelson's update on their fight for justice.