One minor nitpick here....
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Dan Minette wrote:
> The marginal value of working for someone on welfare is a real problem,
> but I think we can mostly seperate it from the problem of one spouse
> working for 20k/year and the other spouse thinking of taking a 20k/year
> job. Medicaid limits are too low to be comsidered. Head Start (for
> pregnant women and for children under 6) applies, but that's fairly
> limited. The other benefit that I can think of them losing is the
> earned income tax credit. If no one says that they've already
> calculated this in an hour or two, I'll go to last year's copy of
> TurboTax to make a calculation.
Head Start is a preschool program for low-income children.
The program you're thinking of is WIC - Women, Infants and Children. It
helps pay for certain sorts of foods at the grocery store. (I've bought
cheese with "WIC Approved" stickers for years. Just happened to be the
sort of cheese I wanted to be buying, but it was nice to know that it was
considered nutritionally sound enough to be covered by that program.)
Julia
see, I *am* following the thread :)
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