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The 4 Types of People on Welfare Nobody Talks About

Most of us think of a minority living in a filthy house with five kids running around while an alcoholic dad sleeps it off face down on the couch ... if there's even a dad at all. I talked in another article about the things politicians will never understand about poor people, but it's not just Washington elites who treat the poor like an alien species. Hell, I find myself thinking in "welfare queen" stereotypes, and I grew up among them.

The problem is that everyone -- from the news media to well-meaning activists -- refer to "the poor" as one group having the same problem, when in reality no two people are in the category for the same reason, and almost none fall neatly into the stereotype. Right now there are millions of people out there who are using government assistance because they are ... #4. John Foxx/Stockbyte/Getty Images I've decided to start saying "butt-fart. " #3. Erik Snyder/Lifesize/Getty Images Free hookers. Old Economy Steve. Boomerang Babies: Record Numbers of Young Adults Live with Parents at Terrible Cost. Photo Credit: shutterstock.com August 5, 2013 | Like this article?

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Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Editor's note: This is part of Lynn Parramore's ongoing AlterNet series on job insecurity and part of the New Economic Dialogue Project. America’s young people have been hit so hard by the crappy economy that they can’t even get out the door. Something is going horribly wrong in our economy—something that will cost everybody. The Wages of Recession The U.S. has seen a significant uptick of young people unable to afford to move out on their own since the start of the Great Recession in 2007, when just 32 percent lived with their parents. Folks just starting out in life continue to face a jobs crisis even as the economy improves, as Catherine Ruetschlin and Tamara Draut of the public policy think tank Demos have found.

Interestingly, according to the Pew poll, it’s the young men who are having the hardest time moving out. Families Under Stress. Change of Perception. 23 Shocking Comparisons That Change How You Think of Money. Medieval peasants got more vacation time than you. Life for the medieval peasant was certainly no picnic.

Medieval peasants got more vacation time than you

His life was shadowed by fear of famine, disease and bursts of warfare. His diet and personal hygiene left much to be desired. But despite his reputation as a miserable wretch, you might envy him one thing: his vacations. Plowing and harvesting were backbreaking toil, but the peasant enjoyed anywhere from eight weeks to half the year off. The Church, mindful of how to keep a population from rebelling, enforced frequent mandatory holidays. As for the modern American worker? It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way: John Maynard Keynes, one of the founders of modern economics, made a famous prediction that by 2030, advanced societies would be wealthy enough that leisure time, rather than work, would characterize national lifestyles.

What happened? Fast-forward to the 21st century, and the U.S. is the only advanced country with no national vacation policy whatsoever. Some blame the American worker for not taking what is her due. Overpopulation is a Myth.