Few programs pay more than the minimum wage of $3.80 an hour.
At its height, the program paid for an additional 1,000 officers on the street each day.
The program pays one parent $18,000 a year to stay home with the children.
The program pays about $7 per hundred, compared with at least $10 before.
American military officials say the program paid more than $1.2 million by the end of the weekend.
This program does not and has never paid for abortions.
And the program pays $75 of the $99-a-week child care cost for her 3-year-old daughter.
That program paid farmers to take land out of production.
But Congress already plans to cut these programs to pay for health-care reform.
Some social programs also pay for themselves in reduced crime.