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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 3204527" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>Most of the job growth these past few years has been in the low wage ($7.25-8.50) range and zero benefits especially health insurance. The problem is that people in the states that would not participate in the expanded Medicaid program would lose their medical assistance cards if they took the employment. When you&#039;re a single mom with kids you were in most cases better off to stay on welfare and keep the medical assistance card. My state on the other hand chose to participate in the expanded Medicaid program which made it much easier for the welfare department to get people off welfare and get them to take the low wage service jobs because it allowed the individual to keep their medical assistance benefits. In turn the government is not subsidizing the worker , it&#039;s subsidizing the low wage employer keeping them going when they would otherwise be out of business because they refused to pay their employees enough to make them independent of taxpayer funded compensation assistance.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 3204527, member: 58386"] Most of the job growth these past few years has been in the low wage ($7.25-8.50) range and zero benefits especially health insurance. The problem is that people in the states that would not participate in the expanded Medicaid program would lose their medical assistance cards if they took the employment. When you're a single mom with kids you were in most cases better off to stay on welfare and keep the medical assistance card. My state on the other hand chose to participate in the expanded Medicaid program which made it much easier for the welfare department to get people off welfare and get them to take the low wage service jobs because it allowed the individual to keep their medical assistance benefits. In turn the government is not subsidizing the worker , it's subsidizing the low wage employer keeping them going when they would otherwise be out of business because they refused to pay their employees enough to make them independent of taxpayer funded compensation assistance. [/QUOTE]

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