The percentages have been the same for ages with minor changes here an there. Food stamp recipients are 48 million which is more than the entire black population of the US.
I was just using welfare stats not everything else because their are too many categories.
Personally I don’t know any minorities on welfare. I had a family member who was on welfare because of a major accident but that was only because all the job benefits ran out. I think welfare was meant for situations like that.
Heck, active duty military can qualify for WIC and food stamps.
If there are 48 million on welfare and there are 38.8% of the entire white (non-hispanic) population on welfare, then the numbers don’t work...
If 38.8% of the entire non-hispanic white population were on welfare, the roles would be much larger than 48M to cover that since 0.388*196,817,552 = 76,365,210 based on 2010 numbers.
When looking at the numbers the way I suggest (48M welfare recipients divvied up in percentages per capita), then the numbers work.
Blacks would be: 19,104,000 (39.8% of 48M)
Whites would be: 18,624,000 (38.8% of 48M)
Hispanics would be: 7,536,000 (15.7% of 48M)
For a total of 45,264,000, which is roughly 95% of 48M (just shy of 95% actually).
I wanted to be proven wrong for two reasons.
1) because I didn’t want to believe that it was as bad as I assumed (blacks in both raw numbers and percentage-wise are heavily over-represented in the welfare roles). IOW, they are way too dependent on the taxpayer/government.
2) I didn’t want to come across as a jerk by calling you out on this mid-thread.