Its the pay that you get from a job that pays so low that you qualify for some type of government public assistance and if you didn't get the public assistance to go along with the job, you would not be able to subsist on the job alone. These types of jobs typically pay up to $3.00 above minimum wage.
Welfare wages is the type of total economy that the US moves closer to with each passing year.
by Curly Stooge July 1, 2016
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