Do you get more benefit from not working or working a minimum wage job? There are arguments to both sides (scary huh?) This article in SFGate by Kathleen Pender tends to say the working pays off because of tax credits like the Earned Income Credit and Child Credit:
http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/Government-credits-make-working-pay-off-4307848.php
Those credits can turn a minimum wage job much more profitable.
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