It's plain enough to me. Is English your second language?
...nearly 43 million people were using the program...
That is outrageous either way. I don't have to go do the math and break down the demographics by age and households; if the total population of the US is 310,000,000 individuals, you do the math.
By coincidence I was reading about the life of a clerk in 1919. She made $7 a week and didn't consider herself poor, but...
By the current definitions of the "progressives and anarchists (the Soros crowd) she would qualify for every welfare aid in existence.
That generation may have been poor, but content.
Today's social parasites, criminals and cockroaches actually believe that they are entitled to total support, indeed demand it. And they WILL burn down their own homes, stores and aid offices to claim what is theirs.
This better end soon, before their masters, the politicians, start putting tracking devices and hobbles on every income tax-paying American with a real job.
No, it is not.