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Given the number of programs available welfare can end up being better than having a min wage job.
And earn $1 over the eligibility and you lose it all.
Welfare is a disincentive to bettering yourself because it's not a gradual weaning off..it's a 100% cutoff and they stand to lose much more for very little gain.
Sweden, for example, treats welfare as taxable income and those on welfare in Sweden have to pay taxes on their welfare benefits.
I'm in that boat. I don't like it but, I'm starting to run into discrimination since I'm about 50, not 25 years old and it'll probably get worse the older I get. It ain't right but; it is what it is.
Facing a $1 billion budget deficit, Arizona's has reduced the lifetime limit for welfare recipients to the shortest window in the nation. Welfare recipients will now have their benefits cut off from 5 years down to 12 months. I personally think the max should be a little longer, 2 years but if other states follow, Obama better get busy and stop worrying about climate change and get busy on increasing those jobs. Lesson... never depend on others, not even the government. Make your own way in life.
I say save the money and offer them funds to move to another state that will give them more benefits. Or you get nothing.
I say save the money and offer them funds to move to another state that will give them more benefits. Or you get nothing.
If the area I live in doesn't have the job I want I would take it upon myself to move. Why do we always have to pay these people? And why pay them to move to get handouts? I guess it never occurred to them to work?
I think cuts depend on state of the state. More states are looking to balanced budget especially seeing states have done it and what it means in growth. As Greece has learn spending on credit always has consequences often higher interest rate until the bottom when you can't borrow.
Greece is monetarily non-sovereign. Arizona is monetarily non-sovereign.
The United States is monetarily sovereign. It issues its own currency. Learn the differences.
As a result, the Arizona Department of Economic Security will drop at least 1,600 families — including more than 2,700 children — from the state's federally funded welfare program on July 1, 2016.
If it's Federally funded why are they cutting Welfare?
Why should poor people have to suffer because the GOP governor and legislator mismanaged the state??
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