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Jul. 29th, 2012 10:29 amhttp://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/09/26/most-food-stamp-recipients-have-no-earned-income/
70% of food stamp household are not employed at this time.
Then again, 21% of recipients (not households) are on SSI and 47% are children.
20% are not even looking for work. They are discouraged unemployed, and this is a problem of the economy. Yes, we will get layabouts. But most people would rather work for a living wage. The problem in many areas is finding a job that pays enough and has enough benefits to cover the loss of medicaid and foodstamps.
We had medicaid. Finding a job with insurance that didn't eat our whole paycheck was impossible before Mudd got on as full-time teacher. Even then, it was a sizeable bite, and we had to pay co-pays and prescription costs. That was scary and expensive when we'd been able to get our kids taken care of without worries. Now we had to weigh whether the condition really needed a trip to the doctor and whether we could afford it.
But before you start panicking about how much of your paycheck is going into the mouths of the Undeserving Poor, consider this:
http://www.examiner.com/article/a-person-making-50-000-a-year-pays-10-cents-a-day-taxes-for-food-stamps
The breakdown comes to about 14 seconds of your day. In other words, in the time it takes your computer to start in the morning, you have just relieved someone's worry about how they'll feed their family today.
70% of food stamp household are not employed at this time.
Then again, 21% of recipients (not households) are on SSI and 47% are children.
20% are not even looking for work. They are discouraged unemployed, and this is a problem of the economy. Yes, we will get layabouts. But most people would rather work for a living wage. The problem in many areas is finding a job that pays enough and has enough benefits to cover the loss of medicaid and foodstamps.
We had medicaid. Finding a job with insurance that didn't eat our whole paycheck was impossible before Mudd got on as full-time teacher. Even then, it was a sizeable bite, and we had to pay co-pays and prescription costs. That was scary and expensive when we'd been able to get our kids taken care of without worries. Now we had to weigh whether the condition really needed a trip to the doctor and whether we could afford it.
But before you start panicking about how much of your paycheck is going into the mouths of the Undeserving Poor, consider this:
http://www.examiner.com/article/a-person-making-50-000-a-year-pays-10-cents-a-day-taxes-for-food-stamps
The breakdown comes to about 14 seconds of your day. In other words, in the time it takes your computer to start in the morning, you have just relieved someone's worry about how they'll feed their family today.
