People are totally living high on the hog, with their $300/week (before taxes). And the numbers given are max benefits -- probably not what a single person with no dependents would get.
Note to CATO-types: have you ever considered that welfare benefits (as well as Medicaid) are pulled when you make over a certain VERY LOW threshold, and that making, for example, 9,500 a year to support two children and getting AFDC and food stamps is OK, but making 10,000 a year and getting your aid pulled means your kids go hungry?
Reality is a lot more complicated than the black and white you make it out to be.
ETA: Not that I expect av3rnus is still reading this thread.
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Re: Do you know how far I had to scroll back in facebook to find this?
Date: 2010-10-02 11:27 pm (UTC)From:I can't find good data through google on what AFDC pays, because the top pages of hits are all CATO jackholes and "welfare pays better than work, so why work?" But I found a single article on the difficulty AFDC recipients have in supporting themselves.
Note to CATO-types: have you ever considered that welfare benefits (as well as Medicaid) are pulled when you make over a certain VERY LOW threshold, and that making, for example, 9,500 a year to support two children and getting AFDC and food stamps is OK, but making 10,000 a year and getting your aid pulled means your kids go hungry?
Reality is a lot more complicated than the black and white you make it out to be.
ETA: Not that I expect av3rnus is still reading this thread.