I’m not saying in any way that this problem is strictly ‘urban’ or black or minority. There may be higher percentages of each group represented, but the overwhelming raw numbers are white people IMO.
I live in a county in north Georgia with 96% white, 1% black and 3% other (that’s Mexicans to you out of staters).
My county has 20% of its population on SNAP. If there’s that much on SNAP, then the numbers for EITC, Section 8, TANF, WICs, SSI, SSDI, etc. are comparable.
I see it in every rental trailer I pass by (you can tell by the inspection stickers), every day at Walmart, Kroger and Ingles. If you want to shop undisturbed there don’t go before 10-11:00AM. Getting up earlier than that upsets them and damages their poor little psyches.
As for SS? My wife recently had to apply and got the option to go to Marietta or Gainesville. I told her you DO NOT WANT to go to the Marietta Office. Every lowlife scum lard ass (SSDI), baby mama (SSI), decrepit foreigner (to get minimum quarter SS, there with their citizen kids) and no good jam it up. That she wouldn’t see anyone that looked like her. I told her that it would be the same in Gainesville but much less. She took my advice. First words out of her mouth when she came back? “You were 100% right.”
When I retired a few years ago I made several trips to my local small town Social Security Administration office. The first thing you notice is the armed security guard. Then you scan the room and realize you are the only person waiting who has a meaningful work history.
I listened to the conversations at the service windows and realized that the SSA agents were actually pushing disability eligibility. It was very disheartening. Even worse, as a lifetime taxpayer I was treated like the enemy. Agents who were willing to spend ample time with disability cases were very short with me. In fairness, I was probably overdressed (khakis and a dress shirt).