“The federal government administers nearly 80 different overlapping federal means-tested welfare programs,” the Senate Budget Committee notes. However, the committee states, the figures used in the chart do not include those who are only benefiting from Social Security and/or Medicare.
Food stamps and Medicaid make up a large–and growing–chunk of the more than 100 million recipients. “Among the major means tested welfare programs, since 2000 Medicaid has increased from 34 million people to 54 million in 2011 and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps) from 17 million to 45 million in 2011,” says the Senate Budget Committee. “Spending on food stamps alone is projected to reach $800 billion over the next decade.”
The data come “from the U.S. Census’s Survey of Income and Program Participation shows that nearly 110,000 million individuals received a welfare benefit in 2011.
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
4 Responses
As Obama said “our policies are working”. Can you imagine if they weren’t working?
In an good feudal manor, all the serfs received welfare from their overlord. In return for freedom, they received enough to live.
One should remember that America was founded by those who wanted to build their own lives, and accomplish all they could, rather than scrape by on welfare.
How many of you, your friends, relatives or neighbors receive WIC, Section 8 housing, food stamps, Pell grants, Medicaid, Title 1, etc., etc., etc.
In just 2007 to 2010 U.S. families lost almost 40% of their wealth. Boruch Hashem that we have safety nets for those who need it.
And the founders of our nation said, in the first sentence of the Constitution, one of the purposes of forming “a more perfect union” was to promote the general welfare.
avi732
Obummers policies are working. Those that believe they are entitled to these handouts are getting them. Obummer wants us to be a nanny state and his policies are ensuring that we get there.
Just imagine another 4 years of this.