New analysis from CNS News finds that the majority of Americans under 18 live in households that take “means-tested assistance” from the US government.
The study, based on the most recently available data from the Census Bureau, leads with the question: Will they be called The Welfare Generation?
The data presented by CNS editor Terrence Jeffrey shockingly reveals that in 2016 “there were approximately 73,586,000 people under 18 in the United States, and 38,365,000 of them — or 52.1 percent — resided in households in which one or more persons received benefits from a means-tested government program.”
It’s a slim majority, but a majority which nonetheless presents an extremely worrisome trend regarding the number of young Americans and possibly young families who’ve experienced some level of government dependency.
To put it in another, perhaps more alarming way, if you’re under 18 the data shows you are more likely that not to be living in a home that receives some form of taxpayer-financed largesse.
In terms of the country’s total population of 319.9 million Americans, the data finds that 114.8 million, or about 36 percent, lived as part of a household in which someone collected welfare.
Jeffrey continued, “When examined by age bracket persons under 18 were the most likely to live in a household receiving means-tested government assistance (52.1 percent), while those 75 and older were least likely (18.8 percent).”
To break the numbers down further according to age bracket, 44 is the magic thresh-hold: all age categories studied up to 44 were more likely to be living in a house on a government assistance program than the overall national rate of 35.9 percent.
The brackets for welfare dependent groups over the age of 18 were presented by the Census Bureau were broken down into the following:
- For those 18 to 24 years old, the rate was 40.1 percent
- For those 25 to 34, it was 36.8 percent
- For those 35 to 44, it was 37.4 percent
Jeffrey observed again of the under 18 bracket: “But even when the Census Bureau excluded the school lunch program from its calculations, the percentage of those under 18 who lived in a household receiving means-tested assistance (44.8 percent) exceeded the percentage in any other age bracket.”
Meanwhile, the study found that single parent households are more likely to be on means-tested assistance: “The Census Bureau data indicate that people living in intact families are less likely to be on government assistance than people living in broken families. Nonetheless, the government-dependency rate is still high for intact families that have children under 18.”
And out of an estimated 192.8 million Americans living in married-couple families, some 56.7 million of these, or 29.4 percent, received welfare.
However, Jeffrey’s analysis found that for kids under 18 a broken home consistently results in a much a greater likelihood a family is on welfare. Of young people under 18 where “a male householder was living without a spouse,” almost 65 percent percent were in households on some type of welfare.
And the figure was 78 percent where the mother was head of the house, with the father out of the picture. For kids under age six raised only by mom, a stunning 82% were in a home that received assistance.
Also shocking was that from 2013 through 2016 — four straight years — “a majority of those under 18 lived in a household taking means-tested benefits,” the study found.
Jeffrey concluded his study of the alarming trend of young Americans on welfare and the potential causes, “America’s prosperity is ultimately and inextricably tied to America’s culture. If we want to see the former flourish, the latter must also.”
What do you expect people to do ? Jobs that don’t pay shit housing , healthcare and general living expenses skyrocketing and a government tax and welfare system that keeps people down and dependent .
Just imagine the crime rate , homelessness and public health issues without the welfare system in place now .
Cops concerned about coming home that night to their family , cut out the welfare state now and cops and any other person of means will not venture out at night . Hell its like that now in many places in America .
No the economy and job prospects for the future of the great unwashed in America are not improving .
The big club is in charge picking winners (their friends and families) and the losers everybody else !
I expect people to have to work to survive. The talk about increased crime being inevitable is horseshit – that can be stopped if there is a will. I mean, make it open season on criminals, and it will stop dead in its tracks.
Poor does not mean idle. Plus, the US has almost zero true poor. Most everyone has food, clothes, shelter, fridges, phones, tvs, etc., except for those with serious issues. Welfare destroys the family structure, making things ever worse. Taking from folks by force and redistributing it is evil, as is borrowing from future generations to do so.
I agree but cutting out welfare now cold turkey is a dangerous proposal unless we are allowed to excercise deadly force without too much government interference
Don’t worry, our government will never decrease welfare, not even when the national debt hits 100 trillion…The EBT cards may not buy anything, of course, at that point..
Keep their knees together if they make shit for money? Use birth control maybe? Figure out why they keep falling for losers who aren’t going to support their own child?
Most of the people on welfare in California are immigrants of one sort or another. They have to go back…
if you ain’t prepared to raise your kid to adulthood you shouldn’t be having sex–taking welfare is not raising your kid–
You can have sex without bringing children into the world.
If you give away free shit, people will take it. Politicians love buying votes.
LBJ’s revenge!
This is a commie journalist running out of a burning house of cards yelling fire but failing to mention that it is a government run crack house for Black Democrat breeders. Most cities, half the states and soon the nation will fall off the demographic cliff. Happy landing your liberal SOBs. I’ll be only to glad to help push you off and cheer for the buzzards.
The explosion of welfare recipients in the southwest is not black….it’s hispanic and muslim.
Of course this problem wouldn’t be nearly this bad had welfare included a stipulation of having an IUD or implant for birth control after the first accident. No fault divorce also takes a good amount of blame. Once kids are in the marriage divorce should only be for reasons of abuse until the kids are at least 16. It should be a legal contract.
And millions more coming in every year, legally or illegally, from all the 3d world sh*tholes….
YOU GET WHAT YOU INCENTIVIZE
THAT should be our new national motto.
Of course households with young all receiving welfare,tis called public education,and you pay for it,whether you have kids or not.I hope the socialists will soon have taxpayer pay for my pets closts,tis the same thing.
This is exactly why we will never have a responsible government, regardless of party in power. I hate magic underwear Mitt Romney with a passion, but he was right when he said behind closed doors on hidden video, that given the very demographics cited, we’re finished.
This is why, instead of shouting for fiscal responsibility (that ship sailed circa 2000) we should be clamoring for ever more money to be spent, welfare, roads, military, you name it. Since we can’t avoid bankruptcy as a country, better to drag it forward and deal with it now. Re-set the broken leg tomorrow instead of years later.
This is also why, and it’s a terrible thing to say, that a certain part of the population, who knows, will try to steal for a living once the welfare benefits run out, and it will run out, because all they know how to do is consume. That part of the population will mostly have to be culled. They shouldn’t have been born anyway, their births were not legitimate but a by-product of a 70 year welfare system, which short-circuited natural Darwinian forces. I’m not talking about genocide, plenty of white women named Crystal and Brandy are in that camp too. I’m talking about classicide. You know you want to put those People of Walmart out of their misery. I do too.
Just like natural selection would ever make a pug or a tea cup bulldog, it would never make most of these welfare recipients. The natural balance must be put in order for a healthier, sustainable human race.
You better be organized and armed or you will become the Barbarian’s dinner.
Long pig,the other white meat.
People that work can’t afford to have kids.
They have to pay taxes.
To provide enough free shit for the Free Shit Army to have kids.