The stats don’t break it down as to who is on what. Welfare and the food stamp program are not the same thing. Unemployment insurance is also labeled under welfare.
Stats are from Dept of Health Services. They do not list how many person of which race is recieving what. They just use percentages and then they lump different things together. If you add everything together and consider all welfare then the number is 56.6M.
When they post the stats they just say 38.8% is on welfare but they do not break it down further. Is welfare just welfare, welfare+foodstamps, unemployment, you get the pic.
I don’t know what you are considering welfare. People in the military can qualify for food stamps.
“You are lumping Hispanics in with the white population numbers in the census 2010 data - I know, I looked at it when I responded with the math originally, so I will repeat it again here.”
Different years have different numbers. I am using 2012 data. Hispanics can claim to be black, white or hispanic. I don’t know.
I does not really matter as the people who approve welfare are part of the problem. I know for a fact that my family member had to go several times to the welfare office to get removed from the program.
The facts are people on welfare did not create the program or the problems associated with it. It was the government who created this monster. Some need it and some abuse it.
If there are more blacks on welfare then that mirrors the fact that blacks traditionally have lower earnings than whites in the history of the USA.
“If there are more blacks on welfare then that mirrors the fact that blacks traditionally have lower earnings than whites in the history of the USA.”
It could also mirror the fact that there is a huge victim mentality and insistence on being entitled to what is (more-a-less reparations through wealth redistribution at this point) as well.
Perpetually offended people with a chip on their shoulder believe they are entitled to the fruits of other peoples’ labor because they have been told so by the people that brought us this massive boondoggle called welfare.
I realize not everyone fits the mold, but there is a large contingent of people milking the system and getting rubber stamped because of race...