Check out this calculator hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services. (H/T ECM)

Here are some of the things the calculator considers:

• how many hours each person works
• how much child support is being paid by the father
• what is the cost of day care
• eligibility for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
• eligibility for Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program
• eligibility for food stamps
• eligibility for Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children
• eligibility for public and subsidized housing
• eligibility for Subsidized Child Care

It helps people who are considering marriage see all the benefits they would lose by marrying.

Sometimes, it is not worth it to work in a real job (dealing drugs doesn’t count because you don’t declare that), and sometimes it is not worth it to get married. And the government likes it when people don’t get married, because fatherless children are more used to being dependent on the state, and they are more malleable in the public schools.

The calculator is linked by the United Way, a radically leftist organization that provides funding for all kinds of anti-Christian, anti-marriage, anti-family, anti-child social programs – including funding abortions. They also cut funding to the Boy Scouts of America.