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Re:The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks! by jacoblyles on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @04:42AM (#4995968)
There certainly do exist people that face a negative return to marginal work, due to the phase out of public assistance with income.

I'm not really sure what "welfare queen" means, but there are plenty of people that face strong incentives to stay on public assistance and little help to get off of it. I wouldn't necessarily place all the blame on them, though.

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Re:The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks! by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @06:12AM (#4996147)
There certainly do exist people that face a negative return to marginal work, due to the phase out of public assistance with income.

This is largely because either their state-government is incredibly stingy (see: Texas) or because their potential wages are incredibly low.

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