<p>Any government contracts, including arms-length institutions like hospitals, should be legislated to only award contracts to companies that pay a living wage, that offer decent benefits and a good pension plan. This is one way to ensure that companies that want those fat juicy government dollars, are at least paying their wrokers fairly instead of just sucking up the profit that capitalists like them love to do at the expense of the actual wealth generators (i.e. the workers being robbed blind by their rentier-capitalist owners).</p>