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Public Assistance - Why Bother Working for a Living?

By: Hammerhead Enterprises

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: Public Assistance - Why Bother Working for a Living?

Last Stocked on 7/12/2024

Product Info

Title
Public Assistance - Why Bother Working for a Living?
Category
Publish Year
1980
Dimensions
18x9.5x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147387630
Type
Boxed Game
Age Range
18 Years and Up
# Players
2 - 4 Players
Game Length
90 Minutes

Description

A politically-motivated roll-and-move type game where players move around the board in two different tracks: "working person's rut" and "able-bodied welfare recipient's promenade." The goal of the game is to have the most money after a pre-determined number of circuits around the board have been achieved. The spaces on the board contain various instructions on where to move your piece or how much money to receive or pay out. Players also collect "welfare benefit" and "working person's burden" cards as they progress around the board. The situations presented in the game ridicule the American welfare system and are very "un-politically correct".

Subtitled ' Why Bother Working for a Living?', this politically-incorrect game was the focus of a boycott in 1980; Touted by inventors as "invented by liberal government bureaucrats. We just put it in a box".

Original Game Contents:

Gameboard
4 playing pieces
4 identical pieces representing each player's live-in or spouse
80 cardboard pieces representing illegitimate children
4 cardboard markers to keep track of the number of months played
3 dice
54 Working Person's Burden cards
54 Welfare Benefit cards
a set of bank notes
play money in 5 denominations