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Since welfare recipients are required to work, Should there be a large increase in minimum wage?

The government is INTENTIONALLY making it very hard for people to get any type of monetary assistance especially now that everything has gone up.

There was a time that welfare recipients was not required to seek employment but now the rules have changed it to where people must seek employment and work 80 hours per week in order to receive assistance and also the have an income limit in order to be eligible. It's like if you're working, you don't get help but if you aren't working you get very little help and get very little money in food stamps especially if you're single and able bodied considering how expensive food prices are $100.00 worth of food usually don't even last 2 weeks.

We all know that the average person cannot survive off of a $16.00 an hour job especially if he/she is paying rent and other bills such as utilities, internet, cell phone bill, groceries, car note and car insurance etc. So it's ridiculous that the government has an issue with assisting with government assistance and want to put so many rules and restrictions on people to receive it yet wanna raise the cost of living every year and raise housing expenses leaving people with no choice to rely on government assistance as a secondary source of income and acting as if rent and mortgage is the only thing we pay. So do you think if the government raises minimum hourly wages much higher as to $20.00 per hour in every state and start off every low-paying job at least $20 per hour, then it will hopefully decrease the number of people requesting assistance. Basically what I'm saying is if you don't want people asking for assistance, raise minimum wage and pay people what they're worth so that most people will able to afford a decent living for themselves without relying on government assistance.

Since welfare recipients are required to work, Should there be a large increase in minimum wage?
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