— Matt Taibbi and Molly CrabappleYou have to be so poor as to have nothing at all to qualify for welfare. In California, to qualify for benefits, you can’t have more than $2,000 in assets to your name. If you have a car, the car can’t be worth more than $3,000.
Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 339)