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all of them at once, rather unlikely (WIC requires that you have young children for one) but I don't think it entirely unreasonable that you would be drawing from the majority of them if you are out of work. The real question is whether or not you are going to take a shot job at minimum wage when you earn damn near that in free assistance. i know if I had the option of spending that time with my children or manning a fry station the fry station would be a hell of a hard pill to swallow.This is what the radical socialist left and obama have created. A dependent society that relies on government for freebies, and have given up on working for a living. As long as they can keep these people out of work and reliant on government for welfare, they'll always have a voting base that will vote to keep them in power...
Welfare benefits pay more than a minimum wage job in 33 states and the District of Columbia.
IF YOU THINK THIS IS NOT TRUE CLICK ON FORBES LINK AT BOTTOM OF PAGE!
I think Ill apply for welfare!!!!!!!!!!
THE WORK ETHIC WE INHERITED GROWING UP HAS FALLEN PREY TO THE WELFARE SYSTEM
The Cato Institute released an updated 2013 study (original study in 1955) showing that welfare benefits pay more than a minimum wage job in 33 states and the District of Columbia. Even worse, welfare pays more than $15 per hour in 13 states.
According to the study, welfare benefits have increased faster than minimum wage.
Its now more profitable to sit at home than it is to earn an honest days pay.
Hawaii is the biggest offender, where welfare recipients earn $29.13 per hour, or a $60,590 yearly salary, all for doing nothing.
Here is the list of the states where the pre-tax equivalent salary that welfare recipients receive is higher than having a job:
1. Hawaii: $60,590
2. District of Columbia: $50,820
3. Massachusetts: $50,540
4. Connecticut: $44,370
5. New York: $43,700
6. New Jersey: $43,450
7. Rhode Island: $43,330
8. Vermont: $42,350
9. New Hampshire: $39,750
10. Maryland: $38,160
11. California: $37,160
12. Oregon: $34,300
13. Wyoming: $32,620
14. Nevada: $29,820
15. Minnesota: $29,350
16. Delaware: $29,220
17. Washington: $28,840
18. North Dakota: $28,830
19. Pennsylvania: $28,670
20. New Mexico: $27,900
21. Montana: $26,930
22. South Dakota: $26,610
23. Kansas: $26,490
24. Michigan: $26,430
25. Alaska: $26,400
26. Ohio: $26,200
27. North Carolina: $25,760
28. West Virginia: $24,900
29. Alabama: $23,310
30. Indiana: $22,900
31. Missouri: $22,800
32. Oklahoma: $22,480
33. Louisiana: $22,250
34. South Carolina: $21,910
As a point of reference the average Middle Class annual income today is $50,000, down from $54,000 at the beginning of the Great Recession.
Hawaii, DC, and Massachusetts pay more in welfare than the average working folks earn there. Is it any wonder that they stay home rather than look for a job.
In one study it was found that in 11 states, welfare pays more than the average pretax first-year wage for a teacher [in those states]. In 39 states, it pays more than the starting wage for a secretary. And, in the three most generous states a person on welfare can take home more money than an entry-level computer programmer.
Time for a drastic change. America is virtually bankrupt.
On Labor Day 2013, Welfare Pays More Than Minimum-Wage Work In 35 States - Forbes
Bogus study. It is typical of the right to use deception, lies and any means possible to try to drown the poor.
Cato Study Distorts the Truth on Welfare and Work | Economic Policy Institute
For one, Tanner and Hughes make the assumption that these families receive simultaneous assistance from all of the following programs: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid, Housing Assistance Payments, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC), and The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). It is this simultaneous assistance from multiple sources that lets the entire welfare benefits package identified by Cato add up to serious money. But its absurd to assume that someone would receive every one of these benefits, simultaneously.
Whats more, their report carries the clear implication that welfare is (or should be expected to be) pulling low-wage workers out of the labor market by making life on welfare so attractive. In actuality, many low-income working families receive assistance through these programs.
Are you really going to argue that such assistance does not drive down the willingness to work? I find that claim extremely dubious.
See if you can glean the important word in the last sentence?
In actuality, many low-income working families receive assistance through these programs.