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agoodcartoon:yiffmaster:agoodcartoon:jkemosabe:averycooldog:agoodcartoon:moosefeels:agoodcartoon:meangreanhare:agoodcartoon:All the restrictions placed on welfare benefits make it impossible to escape poverty.A good cartoon.- Submitted by ChrisName one example of a family being lifted out of poverty by welfare, and not by their own efforts.i got somethin u can lift dickheadhi: welfare benefits allowed my parents to continue to go to college when I was a baby, my mother to gradate, get a job teaching english, and my family to have stable income that allowed for some kind of upward mobility. food stamps and other social welfare spending specifically helped my family (mine, the one i’m in) escape poverty in my lifetime. welfare benefits helped my family leave poverty. mine. my family. i have a close family member raised by a single mom who’d had her at age 15-16, so not a very promising start. thanks to being able to afford food and being given decent schooling at a young age thru head start, she’s now a college professor with a masters degree.Hi gang, me and my Mum were homeless for a bit in London and a government scheme where you could buy a house for half the cost and the government would put up the rest of the deposit and take some of the mortgage let her buy a home where she still lives 12 years laterthats awesome but anecdotes dont outweigh statsok shit wad here a bunch of stats that back up all the anecdoteshttp://mashable.com/2015/07/27/welfare-myths-debunked/“name one example”“ok but examples don’t prove anything”heh.the mashable link is really generic btw so here are some stats specifically on the issue of welfare keeping people out of povertyhttp://www.chn.org/2014/10/16/fact-week-millions-people-lifted-poverty-programs-like-social-security-low-income-tax-credits-snapfood-stamps/https://thinkprogress.org/the-social-safety-net-kept-millions-out-of-poverty-last-year-704467cf5805http://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/safety-net-more-effective-against-poverty-than-previously-thought#_ftn1there’s a difference of course b/n keeping people out of poverty and lifting them out of poverty in terms of economic class advancement, but statistically that doesnt really happen in america anymore anyway so… -- source link