You often have such relevant statistics. And we often hear that 47 million Americans are on food stamps and that 100 million receive some sort of payment from government.
I've often wondered about a couple of stats our government does not seem to provide:
1. What percentage of working age American heads of households don't work, and receive most or all of the support for themselves and their dependents from government?
2. Now 41% of US children are born out-of-wedlock. Do you know what percentage of the single moms are on welfare, or receive most of their support form government?
Those two are related, but also some differances.
Just from the stats we are provided, it looks like somewhere around 12% - 20% of US heads of household could receive most of their support from government. And those on welfare more or less permanently never appear in our unemployment stats.
Do you have any idea on this, or any estimate of what the percentages might be?
And, I think there is little or no hope of ever turnng around our economy until huge reductions are made in the trillion per year now spent on welfare programs, and several million adults are moved from welfare to work.
You can look at these tables and divine some of the info re natives, but natives include lots of anchor babies and 2nd generation immigrants. We have 40 million foreign born in this country and that doesn't include their US born children and grandchildren. Immigration drives around 80% of the population growth in this country. Many anchor babies receive food stamps and Medicaid. It is also worth remembering that the costs of 40% of all children born in the US are funded thru Medicaid.