aA similar chart could be drawn for the eighth month, the ninth month and so on. The point is that married and unmarried women enter unemployment at about the same rate, but unmarried women leave it more slowly.[translate] aPart of the difference in labor-market experiences has to do with...
There is roughly $900 billion in planned 2013 Federal spending on each of 3 departments: the Defense Dept, for Health Care, and for Pensions (SSI?), out of $3.8 total Federal Govt. budgeted 2013 spending.http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/united_states_tot...
Stuart – here’s how we’ve been subsidizing poverty at greater and greater levels. Since the link may not go through, search google images for “welfare spending by year”. The first chart shows that we’ve gone from welfare spending of around $2,000 per person in poverty per year in...
but Medicaid enrollment set a new record high. Average 2002 monthly numbers: Food stamps, 20.2 million; TANF, 5.1 million; and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), 6.9 million. During the year 50.9 million persons received Medicaid
Even more resources are transferred through in-kind (non-cash) programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, food stamps (now SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Food Program), housing assistance and Pell grants, in which 1 In addition to making after-tax incomes less unequal, economists have noted ...
SNAP participation was assessed by asking: “In the past month, did you or any member of your household receive SNAP benefits or food stamps?” Response options included ‘yes’ or ‘no’. 2.2.2. Dependent Variables Questions from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Fruit and Vegetable Intake...
Though I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. There’s lots ofMedicare fraud,Medicaid fraud,Food Stamps fraud, anddisability fraud, so this just seems to be an inevitable additional cost when governments spend money. Fourth, the EITC is absurdly complex (likeother parts of the tax code)...