« 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 pays more than a $15-an-hour job” (Tanner). Some jobs like police officers or elementary schools, the starting pay is less than $15 an hour, so when the two are compared, it doesn't make sense for people to want to risk their lives or struggle to teaching children who plan to live like their parents are excluded from the welfare system and see no need to learn, when the government will give them the same amount of money, or more, to do so