AAQ
I am unclear what you mean. You show a food cost so you seem to be assuming they don’t have food stamps, but you don’t show housing which means you are assuming they do have section 8.
My apologies, I now have this conversation going in two threads. However, the way to do the calculation is to compare families receiving “benefits” to those that are not.
What I am trying to show is that do to all the “benefits” provided to families a family with a lower income can at times be doing better than one with a higher income. This is a fact. So where is the motivation to work harder to earn less? Is it even possible for most families to break to the all important 250k number (which is around where one needs to get to break out of the perpetual cycle). Doubtful….
