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Some Disneyland Employees Struggle To Pay For Food, Shelter, Survey Finds

More than two-thirds of unionized workers at Disneyland in California tell surveyors that they are food insecure at the place advertised as the "happiest place on earth."

A new survey of union employees at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., has found that more than two-thirds of respondents say they are food insecure at the resort advertised as the "happiest place on Earth."

Disneyland employs about 30,000 people, according to the company. The surveyors say they heard from about 5,000 employees representing nine unions at Disneyland. One in ten reported that they have been homeless in the last two years, or

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