Like every out random stat used to make a point, the key to all of them is demographics.
Mississippi is often the butt of jokes for the poor education results, and the number on welfare.
What would the stats for NH look like if 50% of their population looked the residents of Harlem?
You know, I just look at those numbers for D.C., and I just keep thinking, if there were only some way we could HELP those people......maybe sending them some MORE money....../sarc
The Food Stamp President.
Here in New Mexico it is common to see someone checking out at the grocery store while using 3 or 4 (or more) EBT cards.
After one ahead of me checked out I asked the checkout girl, what was the deal? Isn’t that fraudulent? Or even theft?
No, she says. It seems that those poor souls who live in the middle of nowhere will send their friends into the big city of Rio Rancho with a grocery list and their EBT cards. One person may be shopping for half a dozen families.
Sure they are.
This is inaccurate.
They just take the number of recipients and multiply that by the national “average” benefit per person.
The real numbers should be available somewhere.
“Total cost of just these benefits alone (That is, how much do just the money on those EBT cards cost the state?): Around $53.12 million Cost of benefits alone per capita in this state: $25.47 per person”
Yeah, that math does work out for $25.47 per capita, but I’d like to know the figure of how many of that “per capita” actually pays taxes. To be more accurate, the figures need to remove children as well as non-tax paying adults. Bet that $25.47 figure skyrockets when the numbers are only reflective of taxpayers. There must be public numbers out there showing how many New Mexicans paid income taxes, eliminating the EIC recipients and such.