[rodguy911]

If all welfare was taken away and people from 18-65 able bodied either worked or didn’t what would the true unemployment rate be?

[DanZ]

If all welfare was taken away and people from 18-65 able bodied either worked or didn’t what would the true unemployment rate be?

Now this is a good question - One place to see what happened in the past = the great depression.

[kabar]

Immigrants, legal and illegal, use welfare to a much greater extent than the native born. If we had less immigration and a smaller surplus of labor, wages would go up making it more attractive to work than collect welfare.

The American middle class is being hollowed out. If you haven't read Charles Murray's Coming Apart--the state of White America, 1960-2010, I suggest you read it.