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		lcfg on March 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Ch... Public assistance is offered to maintain livable conditions. It would seem that qualifying for assistance does the opposite of what you think it does- it produces a "livable salary".

sxtxixtxcxh on March 12, 2014 [–]

no it doesn't produce a "livable salary", it pushes costs of "livable-salaried" employees to the public.

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