Who Gets Welfare?
Source: Census Bureau
The chart shows the percent of households receiving a benefit in each of the education categories. For example:
Over a third of households with heads whose formal education was limited to a high school diploma — the most common type of household — received at least one of these types of assistance in 2010. A majority of households with heads who stopped their schooling before graduating from high school received government assistance in 2010.
Total assistance was about $600 billion in 2010 and it went to almost one half the population.
Source: University of Chicago professor Casey Mulligan at The New York Times’ Economix blog.
I’m not surprised that more of the the better educated are getting help. I know an awful lot of folks who were top executives and have lost everything after layoffs.
Wow. A picture is worth a thousand words.
Education matters. A lot.
Interesting, but annother interesting chart would show the ratio of people with PhDs as a share of the total number of people receiving welfare, rather than the ratio of people with PhDs on welfare as a share of people with PhDs.
(In this case, the bars would add up to 100%.)
Most people probably think President Clinton ended Welfare. He may have ended one program, but there are numerous others that live on.