{"id":2923,"date":"2013-08-20T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2013-08-20T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:36:12","slug":"study-ny-welfare-recipients-eligible-for-more-in-benefits-than-teachers-earn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/08\/20\/study-ny-welfare-recipients-eligible-for-more-in-benefits-than-teachers-earn\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: NY WELFARE RECIPIENTS ELIGIBLE FOR MORE IN BENEFITS THAN TEACHERS EARN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds that a New York mother of two is eligible for $38,004 in welfare benefits\u2013a sum more than the annual salary of a New York entry-level school teacher.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by the CATO Institute, says in many states welfare pays better than work. Topping the list of wage-equivalent benefits for a mother and two children was Hawaii at $60,590. Idaho came in last with $11,150.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that 33 states and the District of Columbia offer welfare benefits that pay recipients more than an $8-an-hour job would. Twelve states and the District of Columbia offer welfare packages that pay better than a $15-an-hour job does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no evidence that people on welfare are lazy,\u201d writes CATO senior fellow Michael Tanner. \u201cBut they\u2019re also not stupid. If you pay them more not to work than they can earn by working, many will choose not to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130820-133346\">STUDY: NY WELFARE RECIPIENTS ELIGIBLE FOR MORE IN BENEFITS THAN TEACHERS EARN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds that a New York mother of two is eligible for $38,004 in welfare benefits\u2013a sum more than the annual salary of a New York entry-level school teacher. The study, conducted by the CATO Institute, says in many states welfare pays better than work. Topping the list of wage-equivalent benefits for a mother and two children was Hawaii at $60,590. Idaho came in last with $11,150. The study found that 33 states and the District of Columbia offer welfare benefits that pay recipients more than an $8-an-hour job would. Twelve states and the District of Columbia offer welfare packages that pay better than a $15-an-hour job does. \u201cThere is no evidence that people on welfare are lazy,\u201d writes CATO senior fellow Michael Tanner. \u201cBut they\u2019re also not stupid. If you pay them more not to work than they can earn by working, many will choose not to work.\u201d via STUDY: NY WELFARE RECIPIENTS ELIGIBLE FOR MORE IN BENEFITS THAN TEACHERS EARN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1231,1702,1915],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-new-york","tag-teachers","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}