“In Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, D.C., welfare pays more than a $20-an-hour job , and in five other states it produces more than $15 an hour jobs” (Tanner). Some jobs, like police officers or elementary schools, the starting salary is less than $15 an hour, so when the two are compared, it makes no sense that people would want to risk their lives or fight to teach children that they intend to live like them. parents off the welfare system and see no need in learning, when the government will give the same amount of money or more to do