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<blockquote data-quote="boondocks" data-source="post: 1153138" data-attributes="member: 20599"><p>Did she get any benefits with that $10/hr? (health insurance, for example?) If not, there's the disconnect. </p><p>Public assistance in many states may include some cash assistance, some housing assistance, health care, food stamps...$10/hr (with no benefits or housing, eg) can't match that. She can't "afford" to work, the way the system is set up. Not saying it's right, but if that's the way things are set up by the private and public sectors, she is making a rational economic decision. The real problem is that the public benefits like health care, food stamps, maybe even a housing subsidy, often stop once the person begins to make much/any $, instead of being phased out. The other way to do it is to force welfare recipients to look for work or perform public service. In our state, they are supposed to but it doesn't really happen: they have so very little marketable skills, that any program that would try to get them to do work would need more $ than it's worth just to be run.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boondocks, post: 1153138, member: 20599"] Did she get any benefits with that $10/hr? (health insurance, for example?) If not, there's the disconnect. Public assistance in many states may include some cash assistance, some housing assistance, health care, food stamps...$10/hr (with no benefits or housing, eg) can't match that. She can't "afford" to work, the way the system is set up. Not saying it's right, but if that's the way things are set up by the private and public sectors, she is making a rational economic decision. The real problem is that the public benefits like health care, food stamps, maybe even a housing subsidy, often stop once the person begins to make much/any $, instead of being phased out. The other way to do it is to force welfare recipients to look for work or perform public service. In our state, they are supposed to but it doesn't really happen: they have so very little marketable skills, that any program that would try to get them to do work would need more $ than it's worth just to be run. [/QUOTE]
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