signupdamnit

I don't either. That's why I like the idea of raising the minimum wage. 42-58% of food stamp recipients who are expected to work (i.e. not children, disabled, or elderly) are working. Source: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...od-assistance/

So let us say someone works 30 hours a week at Walmart for $8 an hour currently and they receive the average SNAP/food stamp benefit of $133.85 for themselves. (source: http://feedingamerica.org/how-we-fig...realities.aspx)

$8.00 * 30 * 4.2 weeks = $1008.00 per month

Now let us say the minimum wage was raised to $10.

$10.00 * 30 * 4.2 = $1260.00

Wow! Look at that! A $252 raise a month

And their food stamp benefit was only about $133 so that means we can probably eliminate the food stamp benefit (get them off welfare) and they will still have a little bit left over. Win-win, right?

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