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.