Posted on 02/26/2014 12:31:25 PM PST by onyx
Now, don’t tell me that welfare recipients aren’t innovative! No reason to stand on your feet waiting to get your check. Just put your flip-flops next in line and go back and sit on your ass. What a great country!
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With all the talk about unemployment benefits and welfare, it’s important to understand just how much money we’re talking about.
In 35 states, welfare, housing assistance and other benefits pays more than a minimum wage job, according to a new study by the Cato Institute. The study also found that in 13 states, the payout is more than $15 per hour.
Of course, this study doesn’t take into account that not everyone on public assistance receives all of the programs. But if they did, their payout would be significantly higher than even a starting teacher’s salary in 11 states or a computer programmer in 3 states.
The states with the highest welfare payouts – more than $20 per hour – are Hawaii, with payments equaling $29.13 per hour, DC at $24.43 per hour, Massachusetts at $24.30 , Connecticut at $21.33, New York at $21.01 per hour, New Jersey at $20.89 per hour, Rhode Island at $20.83 per hour and Vermont at $20.36 per hour.
Critics say this ignores real situations. The study “does make a lot of assumptions about what benefits a typical family receives and argues that all the means-tested programs should be included in their fictional family profile,” said Catherine Lawrence, an assistant professor at the University of Albany’s School of Social Welfare. “”Research with actual families shows the extreme financial strain of living on welfare or low-wage work; neither welfare nor low-wage employment alone do a very good job supporting the health and well-being of families with children.”
It varies from state to state, but most states’ welfare payouts top out after about 60 months in one lifetime.
The study was called “The Work Versus Welfare Trade-Off, 2013, authored by Michael Tanner and Charles Hughes.
How do these statistics make you, the reader, feel?
Dinesh Dsouza said that his uncle once said that he wanted to go to America, because he wanted to go a place where the poor people are fat.
Absolutely.
I’ve posted that very shopping receipt before.
Disgusting and it’s true.
Dear Lord.
I was shocked at how low Illinois is. The politicians are bureaucrats are just stealing it all there, I suppose. At least in most of the other states, they let at least some of the money trickle down to people who actually need it.
Well, life is full of choices, just like the receipt says...I guess working hard and earning a living was a stupid one!
I share your shock.
Another Idaho resident proud to be last on that list.
[Shopping receipt]
Yeah, it has gotten to be a classic.
Oh yeah, for sure.
Yep! Don’t Mess with Texas.
Shocked to see my state, Illinois at #44. Finally this state does something right!
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