20 Reasons It Really Sucks To Be Poor Right Now

5. How Are You Better Off On Welfare?

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In both Britain and the US, safety net programs require the claimant to give up their privacy and work on the assumption that all unemployed people are criminals.

Recipients are required to make available their living arrangements, financial statements, utility /medical bills as well as declare when they are leaving town – refuse to do so, and your benefits will be frozen. 

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'