you mean "the poor" who don't want to work more than 40 hours a week ?
You assume there are additional hours available to our 30 million working poor
Got any stats to support that?
Anyone can find extra work if they want to.
One person can
30 million people who work and need government assistance can't
Show me where there are 30 million jobs out there that are unfilled
Look in every classifies
d ad in every newspaper in the country and add them up. Then add up all the opportunities to make extra money on your own initiative
Of course you are assuming all those people actually want to look for work
You keep looking from a microeconomic (individual person or company) view.....Yes, a small percentage of low wage workers can find better jobs
But from a macroeconomic (whole country) view, our economy does not have enough "better paying jobs" for low wage workers to move into. Those jobs used to be in manufacturing and construction....but there are not 30 million of those jobs out there
Starting a small business is not a solution for most burger flippers. Even with highly qualified entrepreneurs, most small businesses fail
So your "work harder and find a better job" solution does little to solve the problem of low wage workers needing government assistance