In Missouri welfare is so unlimited and good that it's better to sit at home, they pay more than someone making $11 bucks and you get to sit on your fat azz.

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Missourians with the highest level of welfare benefits can collect the equivalent of $10.96 cents an hour for not working, the Cato Institute reports in a study released this week.

Missouri ranks 31st in welfare benefits. Hawaii is the highest, at the equivalent of $29.13 an hour, and the District of Columbia is second, at $24.43.

In Missouri, the minimum wage is $7.35 an hour.

“Welfare pays more than a minimum-wage job in 33 states — in many cases, significantly more,” the study states. “In fact, in a dozen states and the District of Columbia, welfare pays more than $15 an hour.”

Here’s another shocker from the study: “In 11 states, welfare pays more than the average pre-tax first-year wage for a teacher.”

In Illinois, welfare pays the equivalent of $6.53 an hour, the 44th highest in the country.

The study, which is an update of one Cato did in 1995, concludes, “The current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincentive for work.”