[mandaladon]

Welfare recipients in Hawaii get the most benefits, according to Tanner, at $29.13 per hour — or $60,590 pre-tax income annually. However, the state’s minimum wage is only $7.25 per hour, according to the Labor Department. Hawaiians on welfare also earn 167 percent of the median salary in the state, which is only $36,275. The District of Columbia, Massachusetts and Connecticut have the next more generous welfare benefits...........

It pays to be on the dole in America.

[dblshot]

Not to mention you have all day to pursue other enterprises off the books.

[TurboZamboni]

is that why Dog the Bounty hunter moved there?
(to be close to the louts he’s after)

[Travis McGee]

[Uncle Miltie]

Gawd. (*slaps forehead*)

The leftists will just use this as an excuse to raise the Minimum Wage.

[Java4Jay]

Are these numbers for a single mom with kids or what??

[Sergio]

bkmk

[Chuckster]

Welfare recipients in Hawaii get the most benefits, according to Tanner, at $29.13 per hour — or $60,590 pre-tax income annually. However, the state’s minimum wage is only $7.25 per hour, according to the Labor Department. Hawaiians on welfare also earn 167 percent of the median salary in the state, which is only $36,275. The District of Columbia, Massachusetts and Connecticut have the next more generous welfare benefits...........

It pays to be on the dole in America.

When I lived in Hawaii, the state had the highest cost of living and the lowest per-capita income in the US.

[TexasRepublic]

This country is so screwed.

[NonValueAdded]

Consider too that minimum wage overtime is a vanishing. You get to work two 29 hour part time jobs and not see a dime of overtime. So you work your arse off and break even with staying home

[I want the USA back]

Yes, but the normal self-respecting person will continue to work, even if the leftist bastards take 60% of his salary to pay useless indolent slobs to vote democrat.

The useless indolent slob sees nothing wrong with taking the money that was earned by honest, hard-working industrious people.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is where you end up when “compassion” and feelings drive policy. Why shouldn’t everyone have enough money to support themselves? Why shouldn’t everyone have enough money to live a good life even if they don’t work? If someone wants to sit on their ass and watch TV all day, who are we to judge them or tell them that they shouldn’t get Welfare and Food Stamps? It would be “cruel” to deny someone Food Stamps and Welfare because they don’t work.

And besides, those greedy bastard rich people have more than enough and aren’t paying their “fair share” of taxes. If they just “paid a little more” it would help “those in need.”

The Welfare State is a national suicide pact. America has slit its wrists and is bleeding out. But as long as the current generation gets to live the good life without having to work for it, who the hell cares about anyone else???

[listenhillary]

Sad bump