Nearly two-thirds of American children now live in households receiving aid from at least one federal agency, according to a recent report from the Census Bureau.
This staggering figure is based on data compiled from interviews from the fall of 2011 that were conducted as part of the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
The federal programs being accessed by these households include Medicaid, the National School Lunch Program, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
Of these programs, the one most commonly participated in was the National School Lunch Program, with an enrollment of 35 million children. In second place was Medicaid (26.4 million participants), followed by SNAP (17.3 million), WIC (6.4 million) and TANF (2.3 million).
The Census Bureau report, titled “A Child’s Day: Living Arrangements, Nativity, and Family Transitions: 2011 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being),” interprets the compiled data to highlight “how family structure, nativity, and family instability are associated with selected measures of child well-being”:
Measures of child well-being include family reading practices, shared meal times, television rules, children’s extracurricular activities, and school performance, as well as early child care experiences.
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It's all about control from cradle to grave!
ReplyDeleteObama and ilk won't stop until its 100%.
ReplyDeleteIt's not surprising!!!
ReplyDelete... 55% of the students in Wicimico County get FARM. Free And Reduced Meals.
The majority of students at Wicomico County Public Schools are future Democrat voters.
Only the ones who are not or will not be fellons.
ReplyDeleteThey make it so easy. They practically beg you to take it.
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteThey make it so easy. They practically beg you to take it.
January 5, 2015 at 4:00 PM
This is so true. It's just like Obama phones. Google Obama phones and you will find all these free sites begging people to take the phones. They are government contractors and they are paid to find people to take those Obama phones whether they need them or not. All you have to do is show something like a EBT card and you will get one without a credit or back ground check.
It doesn't pay to work. What if all hard working Americans decided to quit work and go on Welfare and join the Entitlement crowd. That money would dry up quick. On the down side of that is it would be a perfect opportunity to make everyone dependent on the government and you now have a dictatorship and a true Socialism. Just what Obama and the UN wants.