" In 39 states, welfare pays more than the starting wage for a secretary." This article explains how the majority of states offer a total potential government-provided welfare benefit that is higher than the annual pretax wage of many common jobs. The article also includes a chart comparing the annual welfare benefit and the annual pretax wage earned in a given job in each state.

This article explains how public universities across the country have begun to decrease the amount of financial aid given to perspective students who need more help financially and have given more aid to perspective students with much higher incomes. This article also explains how lack of substantial financial aid has prevented many promising students who were accepted into public universities from continuing their education through attending college at all.