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Skilled job. >> you know, it's interesting, i said earlier on the show my mom was on welfare for a short period of time. single mom trying to raise two kids, trying to work to obviously put a roof over our head. there is, i believe, a need, there is a safety net value. it's meant to be a safety net. it's not to be a lifelong entitlement. number one, number two, we have to find a way to pay for it that top-to-bottom review to eliminate a lot of the fraud waste abuse and overlap that you are referring to. what did you note in your report about that? we noticed that the federal government spends ...

Cases than a low wage, low skilled job. >> you know, it's interesting, i said earlier on the show my mom was on welfare for a short period of time. single mom trying to raise two kids, trying to work to obviously put a roof over our head. there is, i believe, a need, there is a safety net value. it's meant to be a safety net. it's not to be a lifelong entitlement. number one, number two, we have to find a way to pay for it that top-to-bottom review to eliminate a lot of the fraud waste abuse and overlap that you are referring to. what did you note in your report about that? we noticed that the...

More than $15 an hour. joining us now from washington is the author of that study, michael tanner. michael, welcome, it's good to have you on. i read your article. i was quite frankly not shocked in some respects, a little interested on the other hand. wondering, you know, how do we get out of this quite of quick sand mess we are in when it comes it to people who legitimately need some help but also incentivizing them to go out and get jobs. >> the big problem is simply that the welfare state has grown so big that there is very little accountability. most people when they think of welfare thin...

More than $15 an hour. joining us now from washington is the author of that study, michael tanner. michael, welcome, it's good to have you on. i read your article. i was quite frankly not shocked in some respects, a little interested on the other hand. wondering, you know, how do we get out of this quite of quick sand mess we are in when it comes it to people who legitimately need some help but also incentivizing them to go out and get jobs. >> the big problem is simply that the welfare state has grown so big that there is very little accountability. most people when they think of welfare thin...

Everybody's clothes, shoes? when you take money from the economy or borrow it as we're doing today to provide food stamps for somebody, you don't get a net gain to the economy. >> the food stamp program is one of a huge number of antipoverty programs offered we the federal government. the current tally, 126. the current cost over a trillion dollars a year. but what if washington's most vested interest in the country's biggest corporations are profiting from the explosive growth of these programs designed for the poor? welfare in america is supposed to be a safety net for those in need. but ins...