Theoretically yes, but all of the programs for doing so are under-funded and means-tested and circumscribed into near-meaninglessness. They’re basically systems designed to kick as many people as possible off of their benefits, while still keeping up the pretense of having a social-welfare system.
The extra kick in the gut is, all of the bureaucracy and regulatory enforcement agencies needed to enforce these Byzantine systems are still expensive as hell to operate in a country this big, so in the end we spend a ton of money trying to offer people as little help as humanly possible.
There are various means-tested beauracratic nightmares that are too complicated to enter, and so meager in both the amount and what they allow you to do with the money. It's on a card, so they only let you get the foods they certified to be the shittiest. The calculus of amount of aid versus how much effort to get it probably ends up way below minimum wage.
It's so good and neat that you can go to the grocery store with EBT and buy packaged raw chicken quarters, or like pre-cooked and cooled fried chicken, but not a hot rotisserie chicken.
Hahahahahaha Well, as a recent parent, I can say that my wife gets 6weeks unpaid thanks the the family medical leave act, so hey you better save extra money! Fuck the united states.
Don't Americans get any kind af child support from the government federal or state, like at all ?
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Theoretically yes, but all of the programs for doing so are under-funded and means-tested and circumscribed into near-meaninglessness. They’re basically systems designed to kick as many people as possible off of their benefits, while still keeping up the pretense of having a social-welfare system.
The extra kick in the gut is, all of the bureaucracy and regulatory enforcement agencies needed to enforce these Byzantine systems are still expensive as hell to operate in a country this big, so in the end we spend a ton of money trying to offer people as little help as humanly possible.
There are various means-tested beauracratic nightmares that are too complicated to enter, and so meager in both the amount and what they allow you to do with the money. It's on a card, so they only let you get the foods they certified to be the shittiest. The calculus of amount of aid versus how much effort to get it probably ends up way below minimum wage.
It's so good and neat that you can go to the grocery store with EBT and buy packaged raw chicken quarters, or like pre-cooked and cooled fried chicken, but not a hot rotisserie chicken.
Hahahahahaha Well, as a recent parent, I can say that my wife gets 6weeks unpaid thanks the the family medical leave act, so hey you better save extra money! Fuck the united states.