Hey Caitlin! It's not working anymore.
Posted on 05/31/2018 2:55:02 PM PDT by BBell
White Americans are increasingly critical of the country’s social safety net, a new study suggests, thanks in part to a rising tide of racial resentment.
The study, conducted by researchers at two California universities and published Wednesday in the journal Social Forces, finds that opposition to welfare programs has grown among white Americans since 2008, even when controlling for political views and socioeconomic status.
White Americans are more likely to favor welfare cuts when they believe that their status is threatened and that minorities are the main beneficiaries of safety net programs, the study says.
The findings suggest that political efforts to cut welfare programs are driven less by conservative principles than by racial anxiety, the authors conclude. T hat also hurts white Americans who make up the largest share of Medicaid and food-stamp recipients. President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have proposed deep cuts to both programs.
“I think our research is very relevant to politics,” said Rachel Wetts, a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley and the lead author of the new research. “My main hope here is that people take a step back, look at what these sorts of programs do for the poor, and think about what’s driving opposition to them.”
Wetts and her co-author, Stanford University sociologist Robb Willer, conducted three separate experiments designed to gauge white Americans’ attitudes toward welfare and the factors that influenced them.
In the first, the researchers analyzed 10 years of nationally representative survey data on attitudes toward race and welfare programs. Between 2008 and 2012 in particular, they found, opposition to welfare rose among all Americans -- but far more sharply among whites, who also began scoring higher on racial resentment scales during that period.
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They still market some things towards paunchy emasculated men - they just know they won’t buy $300 sneakers.
If these people want to be fed and housed like farm animals, they can be worked like them as well. They certainly breed like them...
Food stamps are one program I understand; the French and Russian revolutions were spurred by hunger, and our government won’t face that. Instead, we have the most obese poor people in the world, complete with a diabetes epidemic, but they are docile.
Setting up single mothers with their “golden ticket welfare bastards” is just absurd, as is any cash benefit when we’re already providing everything else.
I read between the lines here: “American workers (regardless of color) are increasingly critical of a socialist safety net that transfers taxes to increasingly foreign recipients.”
Their envy makes me so proud of my heritage; we’ve built a country like no other. Unfortunately, we’re turning it over to savages because we won’t breed enough.
Interesting ... your pie charts indicate that Medicaid, Food stamps, and Cash assistance are used disproportionately by “blacks” and “hispanics”.
Mathematics reveal truths; Statistics create lies.
Hey Caitlin! It's not working anymore.
when people can raise a family on one job they will have kids again.
arguably its why the deep state did that to all of us-keep us all down
Stop....paying....people....to breed and vote.......
I have said for years that I am not racist but resentful. My Hungarian half of the family didn’t get here till 1889 and my great- grandfather left Virginia,joined a Ohio artillery battery, and fought against his three brothers.
That took a lot of guts no matter what the reason was.
Must be racism!
Freely used by the same scum who cry ‘Racism’ at every and any opportunity. Sad.
Yeah, everybody wants to come here. Where they wave their own countries' flags and talk about how evil and racist it is here and how all those white people are so horrible. Then in the next breath, demand to be allowed to stay here.
They come here believing the streets are paved with gold, but then they realize they have to work if they don’t want to live in public housing with our underclass - and the employers really work them...
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