A family of four (in the U.S.) earning $11,925 a year (likely) gets less government aid than a family of four earning $47,700. Thank you, Robert Moffitt.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMVd4P_KJJg&w=620&h=315] Robert Moffitt is an economist at Johns Hopkins; most of his research is around the idea of taxes, health care, and welfare. Indeed, he has a huge study coming out in the academic journal Demography later this year/next year about the evolution of welfare in the United States. It's fairly …
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