It was reported on FR the other day that 67% are on welfare in NO.....
I don't believe that is corrct it's 67% African American..I couldn't find any figures but articles saying how NO was not meeting new federal goals of getting people off of welfare...
If you find the numbers let me know...I thought 67% was high even for NO...
Yep, I think the city was around 70 per cent African American...welfare was there, but not all urban blacks by any means are on welfare. There have been aggressive programs designed to get mothers off welfare, that have been pretty good, at least when I was involved with the program. A lot of the mothers weren't third generation welfare mothers. A lot of the women I dealt with were from marriages or relationships that had fallen apart and left them with little education and kids in tow...and they had a lot of motivation to make life better for their kids.
Of course, there were others who were just coasting...