I Thought There Were More People On Welfare?

H

Howey

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At least, if you listen to the lies of the right wing, there is.

Unfortunately (for them), the answer is far from it.


In 1996, President Bill Clinton's welfare-reform legislation implemented the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, replacing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.

TANF is a block-grant system giving states funding each year to cover benefits and services for needy families, which ended direct federal assistance.

The Administration for Children and Families, under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, archives reports on total caseloads for TANF and its predecessor.

In 1996, the total number of adults and children receiving assistance under the older program was 12.3 million.

In 2011, there were 4.4 million adults and children receiving aid under TANF, according to the most recent archives for the program.

States are also required to spend a certain amount of their own money on welfare. State-funding recipients are archived separately from TANF recipients.

In 2011, the combined number of recipients of federal TANF and state-funding assistance was 4,559,126.

The bottom line: The most recent combined recipient numbers show a 63 percent drop of total welfare recipients compared with AFDC numbers in 1996, a decade and a half earlier.
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Wasn't that legislation from '96 predicted by some to be throwing millions of kids and families out onto the streets and into starvation? Looks like it was pretty good legislation.
 
[h=1]Record 46 Million Americans Are on Food Stamps[/h] BUSINESS NEWS

CNBC.com | Tuesday, 4 Sep 2012 | 3:37 PM ET
The number of Americans on food stamps hit a record high in June, and economists don't expect much improvement as long as unemployment remains high.



Those receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program numbered 46.37 million, the government said in a report that hit just days ahead of the monthly nonfarm payrolls report, which the Labor Department releases Friday.


The two numbers are inextricably linked as the economy battles its way back from the crippling recession that the National Bureau of Economic Research says ended in 2009.


"The unemployment data is not really telling us the true story of how many people are underemployed," says Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital in New York. Food stamps are "a good indication of how the income of the workforce has stagnated and more and more people are applying for food stamps."



With 22.4 million households using food stamps, fully 15 percent of the American population is on the program. The costs, at $6.025 billion for the month, are just off the all-time record though the average monthly benefit per person has declined modestly to $132.96.


While the unemployment rate actually has come down from the 10 percent readings it showed in 2009, the amount of participants for the SNAP program has soared.


There were fewer than 31 million people on food stamps as recently as November 2008, but an aggressive effort from President Obama's administration has helped build participation, with the total increasing by 44 percent since the president took office in January 2009.



http://www.cnbc.com/id/48898378

LOL

Sounds like welfare to me....
 
15% on food stamps. 19% at or below the poverty line. 50% living paycheck-to-paycheck. 47% can't afford college for their children.

So how's capitalism working? Ready for reform yet?
 
Sycamore said:
15% on food stamps. 19% at or below the poverty line. 50% living paycheck-to-paycheck. 47% can't afford college for their children.

So how's capitalism working? Ready for reform yet?
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Not really. I was ready for change, back in 2008. Hussein was so smooth and appeared so sincere during his first presidential race. Hell, the man had me at least wanting to believe him. Your side has had the majority for over four years now. So where's the change you can believe in? Or is this it?
 
yes I wish these people who claim to be protecting caplitalism would stop making it so harsh that the public starts to dislike its harshness.


caplitalism unfettered turns into monoply.

Everyone knows it but the insane.


You have to round the edges by making sure there is a proper safety net for those who caplitalism tries to leave behind.


You have to help them survive while you position them to join in the fray of caplitalism.


You sometimes have to give a man a fish so he can live long enough fr you to teach him to fish.
 
RazorX said:
[h=1]Record 46 Million Americans Are on Food Stamps.
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Another retarded claim. You're so fucking stupid you don't realize there's a difference between food stamp apples and TANF oranges, which is what this OP is about.

Are you aware most of those on food stamps for their families actually work? Are you aware the majority of recepients aren't black or white, but chidren?

Do you want the children to starve to death?

Are you aware that as we leave the economic mess that Bush left us, fewer and fewer Americans are seeing the need for food stamps?


The food stamp program ballooned during the recession as workers lost their jobs or saw their hours and income reduced. The rise in recipients has begun to flatten in recent months, which may mean that as the economy is improving fewer Americans are seeking to join the program. Enrollment in the program is still high though, with 11.6% more people tapping benefits in February than the same month a year earlier.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/05/03/about-1-in-7-americans-receive-food-stamps/
 
Granule said:
Not really. I was ready for change, back in 2008. Hussein was so smooth and appeared so sincere during his first presidential race. Hell, the man had me at least wanting to believe him. Your side has had the majority for over four years now. So where's the change you can believe in? Or is this it?
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My side doesn't have much of anything. A couple senate seats, as I recall, but not much else.
 
and when he dies on his way to the river for lack of food you say GREAT he was too lazy to be alive
 
You have bought a bag of bullshit designed to give cover to sociopaths who care nothing for others and just want to be the ones who win the "GAME"
 
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=81643

this was the result of the right having power during our building decline



11/10/2009 07:25 PM ID: 81643 Permalink

Free-Market Capitalism is Very Unpopular Across the World
The BBC World Service poll of 27 countries shows that free-market capitalism is viewed favorably by only 11 percent of those questioned. Most thought that reform and regulation of the capitalist system is necessary
 
Capitalism unfettered is the best way to kill caplitalism in the world.

PEOPLE HATE IT!

If you dont round the edges of capitalisms harsh treatment of the non players then caplitalism will be overturned.


wake up you dunces
 
You feed your babies when they are hungry.

If that makes it hard for you to sleep at night think of it this way.

It builds their brains so that they can be smarter workers as adults.
 
Howey said:
Another retarded claim. You're so fucking stupid you don't realize there's a difference between food stamp apples and TANF oranges, which is what this OP is about.

Are you aware most of those on food stamps for their families actually work? Are you aware the majority of recepients aren't black or white, but chidren?

Do you want the children to starve to death?

Are you aware that as we leave the economic mess that Bush left us, fewer and fewer Americans are seeing the need for food stamps?




http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/05/03/about-1-in-7-americans-receive-food-stamps/
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Food stamp apple, TANF orange, it's all government handouts.

Stop shilling, Howard.
 
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