Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What is the race percentage for welfare recipients?

It is amazing the percentage of people on Welfare in this country.

Based on the 2006 TOTAL population of each respective race in the United States, it is:
37.8% white* (37.8% of the white population is on welfare)

27.78% black* (27.78% of the black population is on welfare)

11.47% Hispanic* ** (11.47% of the Hispanic population is on welfare)


Another way to look at this data is based on the total number of people who receive welfare. It is:

39% white 11,661,000 of 29,900,000 recipients

38% black 11,362,000 of 29,900,000

17% Hispanic 5,083,000 of 29,900,000

The single biggest factor in determining the crime rate of a neighborhood is the race of the people that live there.

Same for the welfare rate.

the Precentages are misquoted.

Its not 38.8% of white are on welfare.. its 38.8% of welfare recipiants are white etc.

around 8% of the US population receives some funding from the umbrella of programs that make up welfare, but many of those receive just smaller amounts of assistance like WIC or food stamps. Around 2% of the US population basically lives on it.

Your numbers are wrong, or at least the conclusions you're drawing from them are wrong.

Here's a link to the 2006 (latest I could find) data from TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) which is considered the main form of "welfare" in the U.S.

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/character/FY2006/tab08.htm

Of course there about 100 welfare programs so depending upon what you consider to be "welfare" the results may change slightly. TANF is a useful baseline.

TANF data shows that of the "families" on welfare, 33.4% are white, 35.8% black, and 26.1% are hispanic. Assuming that the definition of "Family" is the same for all and that they're the same size between the groups, "family" can be taken to be proportional to individuals of the racial groups. Now consider that there are 38 million blacks in the U.S. and 198 million whites that means that a black person is roughly five times as likely to be on welfare as a white person.

It's even worse in my home state of Mississippi, 82% of the welfare receipients are black and 17% of them are white. Since there are 1.75 million whites in Mississippi and 1.1 million blacks, that means that the black 38% of the population as a group is drawing over 4/5 of the welfare.

Note that it's hard to draw absolute numbers from govt. data that only lists "families" instead of individuals, that's by design to make the data hard to search. The TANF data on race is buried pretty deep and you'll likely never find a main stream media source quoting it, the numbers are so skewed that anyone reporting them will immediately be labeled racist.

Suffice it to say that your claim that "(37.8% of the white population is on welfare) & (27.78% of the black population is on welfare)" is completely factually incorrect, the numbers don't support anything like that conclusion.

Sacramento went through a horrible period of gang warfare, several deaths a weekend.

That my friends was Asian and hispanic gangs, the blacks were puzzies compared to these guys.

Look at welfare demographics in San Francisco and they are entirely different than in Oakland.

The country can't be taken as a whole, it's communities and regions. There are regions in the Tennessee/Virginia/Kentucky areas that aren't even close to being about black welfare, it's white trash pure and simple. Chicago, black, Florida not.

At 17 Church Street, Quemado, it's 100% white, any way you look at it.

It is my understanding that under Obama the number of welfare recipients went from 32 million to 46 million. I also heard that there are more white people on welfare than any other race, not sure of % of population.

None of this takes into account the earned income tax credit (one of the least aptly named things to ever come out of our government). That's a hidden form of welfare that never shows up in the welfare stats.

I heard a remarkable statistic:
Only 49% of Americans PAY taxes.

The country will be doomed, if this is true.

You beat me to it. Huge difference.

Is Social Security considered a form of welfare?

Without a wikileaks we'll never know.
Same goes for unemployment rate, education success/failure rates, fed budget deficit, national debt, inflation, number of Mexican Nationals roaming America's streets, the number of Mexican Nationals populating America's prisons, radical muslim sleepers, temperature records from around the world, etc etc. You name it.

We're talking about the master book cookers here. People who lie for a living. And cover for each other, even when lying to one another.
Why, even on the number of guns with Eric Holder's finger prints on them at the Brian Terry battle scene we can't get honest answer... and all they had to do was count to 3. Number one and number three are present and accounted for, no further explanation is required

Lie upon lie upon lie upon lie. So many layers deep we couldn't begin to comprehend.
Believing ANYthing government says is worse than just believing liars. In order to do it you must lie to yourself.
That's just dumb.

Depends on who you ask. Generally older people who have paid into the system their whole lives would say no, while younger foldks who have paid in only a couple of decades would say yes.

Also, if it is perceived similar to an insurance policy where contributions of those who die early go to the support of those who live longer, no.
For those who perceive it as an investment account where all of the money is yours alone, yes.

The important stat is that blacks make up about 15% of the population, but almost 50% of the welfare rolls.

MM

Welfare as a long term program is bad no matter who gets it.

work harder, pay your taxes.............................
millions of obama and democratic party voters on welfare as a way of life depend on you......................................

Keep in mind that we are in the deepest rececession in 80 years (started in December 200, possibly in 2006 - see: http://spectator.org/blog/2011/06/09/when-did-this-recession-begin ). The recession, which is global, has (obvioulsly) led to unenployment and people of all races are on welfare to survive. The better educated you are, the better the chances of geting/keeping a job.

Technically, it's a socialist program, but at least there's the pretense that it's your own money you're getting back, and true to a certain extent. Still should have been ruled unconstitutional way back when.

+1 They know exactly how to play the system, and pass that knowledge from generation to generation. Increasingly whites are learning the same games, though. So many people are on permanent disability while working off the books on the side, when they feel like it.

PS The left (via government social workers) made a concerted effort since the 1960s to convince black folks that all that government program money is theirs, that they have every right to it, and that they shouldn't feel ashamed to take it, so this was at least partially done to American blacks. Prior to the 1960s, blacks had as good a work ethic as whites in the US, and felt just as ashamed as whites to take handouts.