I absolutely love this idea: The Bad Boss Tax

[Lee-Lee]

78. In the real world...

While discrimination in hiring is prohibited, unless it is provable it isn't actionable.

Employers still discriminate today, all the time, but are just smarter about it.

They won't ask about your status on assistance. They will instead look at your social media posts, your address and how it looks on street view, how many people appear to live there, and then will decide how likely you may be to be on assistance and go from there.

Employers are tricky. I know one that has security watching the cameras when they have people coming, and they note does the person arrive early? Late? Then when they are interviewing somebody else goes out and actually looks at the car- tags in date? Neat or messy inside? Bumper stickers? An employer worried about somebody being on assistance can also look and see if there is a child seat or toys in the car- that coupled with no wedding ring means quite likely a single parent, that would be viewed as a risk category. Of course this would never be stated as the reason, so proving the discrimination would be very hard.