Last month, the Senate Budget
Committee reports that in fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing
support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. household
below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support.
What’s the problem with that
much support? Well, the median household income in America is just over
$50,000, which averages out to $137.13 a day. To put it another way, being on
welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the
average job pays $25.00 an hour.
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