Floating Path

How Thanks to Entitlements, Making $3k a Year is the Same as Making $60k a Year

By Nick / In Business, Politics / February 23, 2012

You can do as well working one week a month at minimum wage as you can working for $60,000 a year full-time.

Wyatt Emerich over at the The Cleveland Current has created this table outlining some current entitlements in the U.S. It’s hard to argue that total economic benefit is equal in this case, as Medicaid and Food Stamps aren’t exactly spend it however you want money, but the point gets across. Workers may have trouble getting motivated with so many reasons not to be.