The United States spent $61,000-plus last year supporting welfare
programs for each household in poverty, according to U.S. Census, Office
of Management and Budget and Congressional Research Services data.
If the money had been handed directly to those families, they would have arrived in the middle class, their poverty eradicated, at least until they spent the money. Instead, hundreds of billions of dollars were passed through costly, inefficient and, apparently, ineffective government channels.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates nearly 110 million Americans in 2011 received some form of means-tested welfare, such as food stamps, public housing, low-income support, child care, energy assistance, direct cash payments and other assistance. This is apart from Medicare and Social Security, to which recipients contribute.
"According to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, the number of households with incomes below the poverty line in 2011 was 16,807,795," the Senate Budget Committee recently noted. "If you divide total federal and state spending by the number of households with incomes below the poverty line, the average spending per household in poverty was $61,194 in 2011."
Read more: http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/welfare-377774-poverty-million.html
If the money had been handed directly to those families, they would have arrived in the middle class, their poverty eradicated, at least until they spent the money. Instead, hundreds of billions of dollars were passed through costly, inefficient and, apparently, ineffective government channels.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates nearly 110 million Americans in 2011 received some form of means-tested welfare, such as food stamps, public housing, low-income support, child care, energy assistance, direct cash payments and other assistance. This is apart from Medicare and Social Security, to which recipients contribute.
"According to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, the number of households with incomes below the poverty line in 2011 was 16,807,795," the Senate Budget Committee recently noted. "If you divide total federal and state spending by the number of households with incomes below the poverty line, the average spending per household in poverty was $61,194 in 2011."
Read more: http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/welfare-377774-poverty-million.html
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