Welfare | The Complete Moderate's Guide

Welfare reform is part of every politician's speech, but what programs do we already have and how could they be improved?

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Thanks to donoteat01 for explaining housing assistance:

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General Sources

Tax Credits

Education

Lifeline

TANF

SNAP/WIC

Medicaid/CHIP/ACA

Unemployment

Social Security

Universal Basic Income

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[KnowingBetter]

Slight correction: The $591B Medicare cost is what taxpayers pay, not what those on Medicare paying premiums pay.

[godalseif]

To be fair with the mixed income housing thing. The idea isn't really that poor people will become less poor by being around richer people. The idea is that poverty density generally contributes to unhealthy environments for the residents both physically and mentally. Psychology often doesn't really make logical sense, it just happens to be true.

[PaperMario]

Thank you for this video. People have so many misconceptions about welfare. I grew up on welfare because my mom had a lot of health issues. We were not balling out or rolling in dough. In fact, we had to borrow from friends to make rent and also afford items that were not covered with food stamps. We had to constantly be re-evaluated to ensure that we deserved the benefits and when my addict father came home from prison, they tried to put us off the program. Not because he had a job or actually did anything to help us, just because he had no where else to go. During a few years when her health was better, the government program helped her get a job assisting the elderly, and we were worse off. We really went through harder times than usual. It was a mess. This was during the Clinton back-to-work era. If you’ve never been at that level of poverty, you will never understand.

[vlogo]

It's really important to remember that the subsidized phone is also a flip phone that's often got very limited talk and text. It's a utility; a digital mailbox.

[rogermwilcox]

4:29 : "No one uses a landline any more. Not even your grandma."

Businesses do!

[SpecialEDy]

I applied for Medicare in Texas when I was going to school full time, living alone, working 3 part time jobs, and made $14, 000 for the year. I have type 1 Diabetes, if I don't take my insulin I die. They said I make too much money for Medicare, but I didn't make enough money for Insurance help through Obamacare.
Did I put gas in my vehicle to get to school and work, or did I buy food? Did I buy my school books, or another months worth of medicine?

[Paranoidifyable]

Read the title as: The Complete Moderate's Guide to Warfare. Very different video ensued.

[Xsuprio]

Lived in the States (Ohio) for 8 years. I heard and dealt with more of the welfare programs mentioned in this video than I'd like to admit. I personally experienced a major flaw... the more I made working, the more they cut (my wife's) benefits. At one point, I had to hand over so much of my paycheck to medicare, we would have been better off if I quit my job and got the full benefits back. I would have NEVER been able to get ahead, as my wife's medical bills were VERY high and would never end.
Luckily, she cheated on me and I'm back in Europe. Yay.

[foreversocal]

Having been on or dealt with on the receiving end of many of the welfare systems in America, the financial "cliff" is the killer & what kept me on assistance almost double the time I should've.

As soon as you hit like $1500 a month, you lose ALL of your benefits including food & maybe health. Meaning that you lose more in benefits than you gain from working, making it incredibly difficult to make that transition

[brucecanzoli]

-You:"taxes in Us are extremely complex"
-Italy:"hold my beer"

[jankielbobrowsky]

The Complete Moderate’s Guide to The Galaxy

[StevePlaysBanjo]

Totally worth the extra time to put this video together. I grew up in a poverty culture where we were shamed for taking advantage of these programs meant to help us get out of pit we were in. As a result, there was very little welfare education. I was lucky enough to eventually get out of that pit, but it probably took 10 years longer than necessary.

Also, the wrassling ferrets at the end are so dang cute!

[Fruitcake_everzz]

My mom fed 3 full grown adults on one S.N.A.P card, for YEARS while my brother and I were in college, She is an amazing woman :D

[zac]

Never realized that full time at minimum wage qualifies you for SNAP, gotta love that hidden corporate welfare.

[Johanna]

I live in a nordic welfare society and I often hear complaints about how complex and bureaucratic our system is, but it's nothing compared to the US system. If I was a US citizen in need of welfare, I would probably be in burn-out.

[Himesua]

This is a great video. I grew up in dire need of many of these programs. We lived in section 8 housing, got TANF/Foodstamps/LEAP(which was the low income heating where I lived at the time we could apply for in the winter ONLY). So there were always ins and outs. I remember super cheap government glasses that I had to be careful not to break and my mom scraping by. I got a job as early as I could and now I help homeless youth find how to make these benefits help them get back on their feet.

[themercer]

Iv done a lot of research into aid programs in Canada, what hits me the most is the fact that nearly 50% of each program's budget is spent on the bureaucracy of the program.

[Jarekthegamingdragon]

"If an item doesn't have sales tax, you can probably by it with snap"
Well, shit I can buy every thing with that here in Oregon. lol

[Nothrice]

A 30 minute video from Knowing Better? Its like Christmas again.

[JKIII-ljus]

Damn I had Medicaid my whole life in Missouri he just said I was in super poverty 😂😂