source, Forbes Do You Live In A Death Spiral State?![]()
Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reports that 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.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2012/11/25/do-you-live-in-a-death-spiral-state/
and the average job most of them could get if they looked is a part time, min wage job.. cutting their take home by at least 2/3rds..