Talk:Welfare trap
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Wikipedia Ambassador Program assignment
editThis article is the subject of an educational assignment at University of California-Berkeley supported by WikiProject Sociology of Poverty and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2011 Q3 term. Further details are available on the course page.
Above message substituted from {{WAP assignment}} on 15:24, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Unemployed don't have a choice anymore.
editI still have no idea where to post this! It's in the wrong place! It's in relation to the beginning of the article.Hello, I'm not sure about this. In England if you are unemployed you can't choose if you want to take a job. You either take it regardless of how much it pays or your benefits stop. Maybe you only mean Americans have the right choose? It's a small nit picking comment but if English people understood the fact that those people can't choose there may be less class discrimination. I don't even know if you think that's relevant either lol! I can't do computers!
Graph Image Illustration
editPrevious versions of the page contained this graph, which was evidently removed (17 November 2022) for lack of proper sourcing. Indeed, the source referenced for the image does not, itself, provide a working source of the actual data used to compose it (it suggests "www.dpw.state.pa.us", but this is currently defunct). (Interestingly, the image currently at the source is not identical, but there is no note of an update to the 2012 post, making it probable the image was recreated by User:Wikideas1 [who lists it as "Own work"] using the data.)
In any case: that image was an excellent illustration of the article: literally showing the "gap". Ideally, a new image could be found/created that is better sourced. However, in the meantime, unless someone is seriously questioning the accuracy of that data, I think it appropriate to seek consensus to restore the image, perhaps with a "citation needed" tag (per Wikipedia:Citation_needed: "Is the information probably factual?").
2601:404:D400:4AF0:2C68:C962:E353:F90 (talk) 15:33, 3 June 2023 (UTC)