Who Gets Food Stamps? White People, Mostly

[Umka36 781]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/28/food-stamp-demographics_n_6771938.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Boycott unweighted polls. Poles are okay though.

Edited February 28, 2015 by ExExpat

[Dakine10 5,452]

Two posts that make me think of spam, but for different reasons.

[Rattlehead 69]

Absolutely shocking, considering the fact that 72% of the country is white....

[LibCampFireClub 635]

[Umka36 781]

Two posts that make me think of spam, but for different reasons.

Sorry that I didn't go through you to justify what to post. Maybe you should volunteer to be the admin to police on what should be posted on current events and hot social topics.

Edited February 28, 2015 by Umka36

[Dakine10 5,452]

Sorry that I didn't go through you to justify what to post. Maybe you should volunteer to be the admin to police on what should be posted on current events and hot social topics.

So obviously you're not familiar with the 'food' known as SPAM?

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Now distributed free with foodstamps

[Rattlehead 69]

[Dakine10 5,452]

Now distributed free with foodstamps

[aaron2020 11,651]

Absolutely shocking, considering the fact that 72% of the country is white....

Does your fact disprove the fact that there are more whites who receives food stamp than any other group? No.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Oh I got it now. So, it's just about the total number. That per-capita stuff just confuses the point. As long as only three out of ten Americans are black, then, and if four out of ten of anyone else does something, then the blacks will always do less than anyone else?

[asisflyer 47]

Really deep thought....

Why would a reporter use USDA report screenshots with non-normalized data and dismiss the normalized data?

Why write an article that racially segments (group by on race) and then not normalize the data for the actual population of each respective race???

HMMM ?

No peer reviewed journal would accept a study for publication as done here. Its an overt contradiction.......

If its about Total # of people, needn't mention any racial overtone unless you are going to do some proper statistical analysis with it and that would require normalizing the data against racial distribution of population.

Crude Figures -- just showing scale factors for comparison

40.2% Non-Hispanic Caucasian at 63% (2013 data ref est.) = 63.8

25.7% AA at 13.1% (2014 bloomberg) = 196 ...

10.3% Hispanic at 16.7% Hispanic (average of multiple sources) = 61.67

12.8% Unreported in USDA data is an interesting twist to the mystery. I would presume some % of this is mixed-race who don't know what to put.

I'm far less interested in the racial demographics and far more interested in knowing:

1. What % are 12-months or more on Aid who are : Able Bodied and Otherwise Lack Disabilities (ignore children temporarily)

a. of this group, what % have children under ten? average # of children?

b. what can we figure out about this group?

2. Same as above for longer periods of time.

3. What is likely fraud/misuse rate among the long-term SSDI market ?

In other words, is there a group abusing the program. Are there way to help reduce the long-term users.

It you are submitting a thesis statement, then you have to normalize the data.

It seems lately that most news articles are Editorials pretending to be news articles.

[CowBoE 429]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/28/food-stamp-demographics_n_6771938.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

This is a double-edged sword...

As an Asian American (with the lowest poverty rates and not relying on government benefits),

I don't like to see my tax money going to feed the lazy (no matter what color they are).

That said, a good chunk of lazy Americans are also creating much American Dream opportunity

for hardworking immigrants.

So I accept feeding some lazy Americans in exchange for the great opportunity

the country is providing to those that are motivated.

That said, the chart is bit misleading...

Unless you pay attention, one could get the impression that 40.2% of whites are

receiving food stamps, which is totally wrong!!!

What it's saying is 40.2% of SNAP recipients are white,

but that's no brainer since white are the majority population in USA.

This means the biggest percentage within each ethnicity, African-Americans are the

the biggest recipients of food stamps.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

This means the biggest percentage within each ethnicity, African-Americans are the

the biggest recipients of food stamps.

Only fair, since we brought their ancestors here against their will to work as slaves, the least we can do is feed them.