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Who Benefits From the Safety Net
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM and ROBERT GEBELOFF FEBRUARY 13, 2012 10:19 AM February 13, 2012 10:19 am 79 Comments
A new analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities underscores that the poor are no longer the primary beneficiaries of the government safety net.
Terms like en lements, government benefits and safety net often conjure images of tax dollars sliding from the hands of the wealthy into the pockets of the poor. But as we reported Sunday, that image is badly outdated. Benefits now flow primarily to the middle class.
The center’s study found that the poorest American households, the bottom fifth, received just 32 cents of every dollar of government benefits distributed in 2010.
The finding is broadly consistent with the data we reported Sunday that the poorest households received 36 percent of benefits in 2007, down from 54 percent in 1979, numbers that came from a study published last year by the Congressional Budget Office.
While the findings are not directly comparable because of differences in methodology, the new study suggests that the recent recession did not cause any significant increase in the share of benefits flowing to the poor, as might once have been expected.
The study found that older people received slightly more than half of government benefits, while the nonelderly with disabilities received an additional 20 percent. Most of these benefits are not means-tested – indeed, better-paid workers get more in Social Security.
Furthermore, the study notes that politicians have shifted benefits away from the “jobless poor,” through reductions in traditional welfare, and increased benefits for working families, for example through tax credits. The government also has steadily expanded eligibility for benefit programs.
“The safety net became much more work-based,” wrote Arloc Sherman and his collaborators at the center, a left-leaning research group. “In addition, the U.S. population is aging, which raises the share of benefits going to seniors and people with disabilities.”
Another finding of the study is that the distribution of benefits no longer aligns with the demography of poverty. African-Americans, who make up 22 percent of the poor, receive 14 percent of government benefits, close to their 12 percent population share.
White non-Hispanics, who make up 42 percent of the poor, receive 69 percent of government benefits – again, much closer to their 64 percent population share.
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good we deserve it, our ancestors paid into that damn system from its onset and whites continue to pay the most taxes today. this is our ing country that we built and you assclowns act all shocked and fake outrage over us doing well, getting benefits, or anything you can about really. i'll tell you what i told chump and the other communists, mutual ing combat is legal under texas law. we can do it 1920s berlin style.
You'd never show up.
You're all talk.
Cpbb putting out analysis once again.
Classing SS benefits as welfare?
Holy ing .
yeah how shocking is it that whites who paid into social security for 50 years are now getting their money back? such a stupid ing article and thread from a petty little anti white racist who couldn't hold a candle to me anywhere at anything on his best day.
shut the up got, you and blake go prep the bull. sniveling cowardly little thing you are, you reek of weakness and pathetic self hatred don't project that my way i'm a proud german and a real Aryan.
You're a mousy piece of who never did anything and will never do anything.
no er, at least i stand up for mein volk, this clown makes a thread ting on white people and you, a self proclaimed white male, come in here defacto backing him up because the only person you went after is me. you're a self hating little piece of s and a traitor. and you know where you're going to stand on the day of redemption, you're not one of us anymore.
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What have you accomplished via 24/7 internet life?
he's earned a lot of shekels from the JIDF for what he does, that sellout
"The center’s study found that the poorest American households, the bottom fifth, received just 32 cents of every dollar of government benefits distributed in 2010."
But but the GOP told me the poorest are getting unlimited handouts and are robbing the middle class of hundreds of thousands of dollars
False premise. I see you're still pissy.
Cbpp's "analysis" is bull . Any point you try to make piggy-backing off that hit piece is instant fail."The center’s study found that the poorest American households, the bottom fifth, received just 32 cents of every dollar of government benefits distributed in 2010."
But but the GOP told me the poorest are getting unlimited handouts and are robbing the middle class of hundreds of thousands of dollars
Why is it bull ?
To lump in Social Security with tranfer payouts is like comparing squirrels to parachute pants.
SS is a specific tax for a particular, defined purpose. Welfare is a distribution of general taxes.
SS is the government confiscating part of your allowance to hold onto for you because they don't feel like you can save your own money without their help or oversight. it's literally YOUR money that you put up for YOUR retirement, it's not an extra gibsmedat like the rest of what people think of as "welfare" such as food stamps, cheaper housing, etc.
lol always a classic.
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