RE: There have been numerous articles that you can make in that neighborhood with food stamps, welfare, and all the other programs out there.
Since you used the adjective : NUMEROUS, surely it will be a breeze for you to show us some of these articles that purport to show us how people on welfare are getting the equivalent of someone working getting $54,000 plus benefits... a few links will do.
We’re waiting....
1. Public Housing with utilities paid: $14,000.
2. Food stamps for 4: $8,000.
3. Unemployment (maximum): $27,000.
4. TANF: $6,000.
5. Indigent Care Program: Unlimited, 10% co-pay.
6. WIC: $500.
That’s just off the top of my head. Ther are more programs, some local as well. Primarily people live on public housing, food stamps, TANF, ICP, and WIC.
It may not be $54,000, but families can get over that when living together as a houshold and many do.
I forgot about EITC: $3,050 to $5,666 free taxpayer money. Since that is tax free we can easily add 20% for the tax burden equivalent: $3,600 to $6,800.
I didn’t see numerous articles, but I did hear approximately this figure reported on Fox and I did read one article, the amount was $60,000.
I didn’t read any info as to how they arrived at this figure, so it could be a little misleading depending on the state and how their benefits are set up, and how many children they have.
When my daughter was unemployed, she did not qualify for most of the benefits due to the unemployment benefits being too much. She qualified for medical benefits for her daughter, but not herself, and no food stamps, so she didn’t qualify for anything close to that amount.