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A lot of people seem to have no idea at all how markets function. You earn what you're worth relative to the market. If you're worth a damn people are going to pay you a damn. If you're not then they won't. It's as simple as that.If they would make themselves worth a damn as employees, they'd be making a livable wage without demanding their bosses be forced to pay them more than the work is worth.
Burger flippers are too valuable to make minimum wage. HahaOkay, show us the non-burger-flipping minimum-wage job that you think negates the argument that minimum-wage jobs are not, and never have been, intended to support a family.
Picking one phrase and going off on a tangent about it does not constitute refuting the argument.
How about you pay your bills and I pay mine?In the state of Texas, there are almost 4 million poor people, by one recent count, but apparently few are penniless enough to meet the Lone Star State’s qualifications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
To qualify for TANF in Texas, a single caretaker with two children must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month
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Texas, one of four states that denied at least 90 percent of its 2020 TANF applicants, had the lowest approval rate in the nation, approving only 7 percent.
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This is former President Bill Clinton’s conservative-appeasing welfare reform in action: Individual states, which were given the power to set their own rules for distributing welfare dollars, denying the poor life-sustaining help by drawing up the rules in a way that excludes most people who need help.
Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor
Clinton's welfare reform reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.www.msnbc.com
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see what I mean, they could care less about the kids once they are born. It's only the fetuses in the womb they pretend like they care about.
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States also have the flexibility to set their own benefit levels. TANF benefit levels are low and do not enable families to meet their basic needs. In every state, the maximum TANF benefit leaves a family of three below 60 percent of the federal poverty line. In more than one-third of states, it leaves a family of three below just 20 percent of the poverty line. States have not reinvested the savings from the steep caseload declines under TANF in raising benefit levels. In most states, benefits have dropped by at least 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1996.
Policy Basics: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
What Is TANF? Congress created the TANF block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, as part of a federal effort to “end welfare as we...www.cbpp.org
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See what I mean, the republicans starve the kids.
Texas is not the worst state.
You are correct in that, but "burger flipper" is the most common and most notable.
Others are gas station cashiers, store cashiers, stock boys, wait staff, cooks.......pretty much all retail jobs in all retail sects. But also, these are easy jobs that don't require a brain to do.
Lots of people do like to work in fast food and make a career out of it. Like everything else, you have to know how to "work" what you have or are given, in order to get the most out of it. If you don't, then you will always be starving and unable to pay bills. Something I had to learn to do early on.
Dude.
The Walmart near me is starting people at like 12 dollars an hour. McDonald's is the same. Who the hell is even working minimum wage? What are these jobs?
That seems a bit high to me. I didn't think Texas was that soft.
In the state of Texas, there are almost 4 million poor people, by one recent count, but apparently few are penniless enough to meet the Lone Star State’s qualifications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
To qualify for TANF in Texas, a single caretaker with two children must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month
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Texas, one of four states that denied at least 90 percent of its 2020 TANF applicants, had the lowest approval rate in the nation, approving only 7 percent.
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This is former President Bill Clinton’s conservative-appeasing welfare reform in action: Individual states, which were given the power to set their own rules for distributing welfare dollars, denying the poor life-sustaining help by drawing up the rules in a way that excludes most people who need help.
Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor
Clinton's welfare reform reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.
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see what I mean, they could care less about the kids once they are born. It's only the fetuses in the womb they pretend like they care about.
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States also have the flexibility to set their own benefit levels. TANF benefit levels are low and do not enable families to meet their basic needs. In every state, the maximum TANF benefit leaves a family of three below 60 percent of the federal poverty line. In more than one-third of states, it leaves a family of three below just 20 percent of the poverty line. States have not reinvested the savings from the steep caseload declines under TANF in raising benefit levels. In most states, benefits have dropped by at least 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1996.Policy Basics: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
What Is TANF? Congress created the TANF block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, as part of a federal effort to “end welfare as we...www.cbpp.org
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See what I mean, the republicans starve the kids.
Texas is not the worst state.
In the state of Texas, there are almost 4 million poor people, by one recent count, but apparently few are penniless enough to meet the Lone Star State’s qualifications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
To qualify for TANF in Texas, a single caretaker with two children must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month
snip
Texas, one of four states that denied at least 90 percent of its 2020 TANF applicants, had the lowest approval rate in the nation, approving only 7 percent.
snip
This is former President Bill Clinton’s conservative-appeasing welfare reform in action: Individual states, which were given the power to set their own rules for distributing welfare dollars, denying the poor life-sustaining help by drawing up the rules in a way that excludes most people who need help.
Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor
Clinton's welfare reform reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.
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see what I mean, they could care less about the kids once they are born. It's only the fetuses in the womb they pretend like they care about.
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States also have the flexibility to set their own benefit levels. TANF benefit levels are low and do not enable families to meet their basic needs. In every state, the maximum TANF benefit leaves a family of three below 60 percent of the federal poverty line. In more than one-third of states, it leaves a family of three below just 20 percent of the poverty line. States have not reinvested the savings from the steep caseload declines under TANF in raising benefit levels. In most states, benefits have dropped by at least 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1996.Policy Basics: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
What Is TANF? Congress created the TANF block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, as part of a federal effort to “end welfare as we...www.cbpp.org
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See what I mean, the republicans starve the kids.
Texas is not the worst state.
Uh-huh. Your failure to backup your claim is noted. Please keep your homo-erotic fantasies to yourself.What you've done to this country the last year you GD widget maker
Without RedStates this country would be in ruins you butt fuckig stupid waste of flesh
Tell them to keep their legs closed if they can't afford a child. I am not paying for another persons baby.Would that make you feel good, thinking children are starving in TEXAS??
I can't reach you anymore. You republicans are despicable.
That breaks up families. Fathers have to divorce mom so that mom will qualify for welfare.
Ironic how the rightwing destroy families.
It is the parents responsibility to make sure the children don't starve.Oh you want the children to starve.
Reading the responses over 5 pages I didnt find much sympathy for your complaintIn the state of Texas, there are almost 4 million poor people, by one recent count, but apparently few are penniless enough to meet the Lone Star State’s qualifications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
To qualify for TANF in Texas, a single caretaker with two children must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month
snip
Texas, one of four states that denied at least 90 percent of its 2020 TANF applicants, had the lowest approval rate in the nation, approving only 7 percent.
snip
This is former President Bill Clinton’s conservative-appeasing welfare reform in action: Individual states, which were given the power to set their own rules for distributing welfare dollars, denying the poor life-sustaining help by drawing up the rules in a way that excludes most people who need help.
Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor
Clinton's welfare reform reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.
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see what I mean, they could care less about the kids once they are born. It's only the fetuses in the womb they pretend like they care about.
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States also have the flexibility to set their own benefit levels. TANF benefit levels are low and do not enable families to meet their basic needs. In every state, the maximum TANF benefit leaves a family of three below 60 percent of the federal poverty line. In more than one-third of states, it leaves a family of three below just 20 percent of the poverty line. States have not reinvested the savings from the steep caseload declines under TANF in raising benefit levels. In most states, benefits have dropped by at least 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1996.Policy Basics: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
What Is TANF? Congress created the TANF block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, as part of a federal effort to “end welfare as we...www.cbpp.org
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See what I mean, the republicans starve the kids.
Texas is not the worst state.
If you are so sorry as to be on welfare then you probably don't give a shit about your children's well being. You would expect other people to pay for your children's well being.THERE SHOULD BE NO CHILDREN GOING HUNGRY
KEEP YOUR LEGS CLOSED IF YOU CAN'T SUPPORT A CHILD!
