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Originally Posted by kane
Say for example you are a single mom working at McDonald's making $9/hr. Because you don't make very much you get food stamps, housing assistance, day car assistance, food assistance if you kid goes to school and energy assistance. Total your government money works out to the equivalent of making an additional $10 per hour so you are living the life of someone who is making $19/hr. If that is the case this person may have little motivation to try to find a job where they will make $13-$14/hr but because they make more and lose much if not all of their government money.
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Actually, if you talk to some of the lifers on government assistance, they can literally break this shit down for you dollar for dollar (if only they applied that skill to the real world). What you just described above is very true sadly.