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发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
标 题: 2011年美国23.1%人口领取福利，达到历史高点
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jul 9 14:50:30 2014, 美东)
(CNSNews.com) - According to the 2014 version of a report that the
Department of Health and Human Services is required by law to issue annually
, the percentage of Americans on welfare in 2011 was the highest yet
calculated. The data for 2011 is the most recent in the report.
HHS has calculated the percentage of all persons in the United States who
live in families that receive “welfare” going back to fiscal 1993. It has
not calculated a percentage for years prior to that.
As defined in the report ("Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors"), a welfare
recipient is any person living in a family where someone received benefits
from any of just three programs—Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (
formerly Aid to Families With Dependent Children), Supplemental Security
Income, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or food stamps).
Percentage of Americans on Welfare Hit Recorded High
By this measure, according to the report, 23.1 percent of Americans were
recipients of welfare in 2011. Since 1993, the earliest year covered by the
report, that is the highest percentage of Americans reported to be receiving
welfare.
A startling 38 percent of all children 5 and under in the United States were
welfare recipients in 2011, according to the report.
38 Percent of Children 5 and Under Are on Welfare
HHS’s count of “welfare” recipients differs somewhat from data published
by the Census Bureau on the number of Americans living in households in
which someone received benefits from one or more “means-tested” government
programs. The Census Bureau data, previously reported by CNSNews.com,
includes beneficiaries of public housing programs, Medicaid, "other cash
assistance" programs, and the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program as
well as beneficiaries of TANF, SSI and SNAP.
As of the fourth quarter of 2011 there were 108,592,000 people living in
households in the United States that received benefits from one or more “
means-tested” government programs, according to the Census Bureau’s
estimate. Those 108,592,000 “means-tested” government benefit recipients,
according to the bureau, equaled 35.4 percent of 306,804,000 people in the
United States at that time.
When recipients of non-means-tested government programs (such as Social
Security, Medicare, unemployment, and veterans benefits) were added to those
receiving benefits from means-tested programs, the total number receiving
benefits in the fourth quarter of 2011 was 151,014,000, according to the
Census Bureau. That equaled 49.2 percent of the total population.
Percentage of children born to unmarried mothers
The percentage of people fitting HHS’s more narrowly defined “welfare”
measure declined from 1993 to 2000, but then began rising again.
“In 2011, 23.1 percent of the total population received or lived with a
family member who received a benefit of any amount from TANF, SNAP, or SSI
at some point during the year,” said the HHS report. “While falling
steadily between 1993-2000, this annual recipiency rate began to increase
after 2000, and increased more rapidly during and in the immediate aftermath
of the ‘Great Recession.’
“The 2011 rate is slightly higher than the 2010 rate, reflecting increased
participation in the SNAP and SSI programs,” said the report.
In the period since 1993, the percentage of people living in families
receiving “welfare” (TANF, SSI and/or SNAP) hit its lowest level in 2000,
when it was 12.5 percent, according to the report. Between then and 2011, it
climbed to its highest-yet-recorded rate of 23.1 percent.
Children are more likely than adults to be on welfare, according to the
report. In fiscal 2011, recipients included 38.0 percent of children 5 and
under, 34.8 percent of children 6 to 10, and 32.0 percent of children 11 to
15.
Meanwhile, 23.3 percent of women ages 16 to 64 received welfare in 2011,
while that same year 19.2 percent of men ages 16 to 64 received welfare.
The percentage of children on welfare has increased dramatically in recent
years.
In fiscal 2000, only 19.8 percent of American children 5 or under were on
welfare, according to the report. Between then and 2011, the percentage of
American children 5 and under who were on welfare climbed about 92 percent
to 38.0 percent. (The percentage of children 5 and under calculated to be
receiving welfare actually peaked in 2010 at 38.1 percent, then dropped 1
tenth of a percent from 2010 to 2011.)
Percentage of Children 5 and Under on Welfare Up 92%
The HHS report identifies the birth of children to unmarried mothers as a “
risk factor” contributing to the welfare rolls. Only 14.6 percent of
married families were on welfare, while 55.0 percent of female-headed
families were.
“Data on nonmarital births is provided since the lower family incomes of
single parent families affects the need for and use of welfare programs,”
says the report. “Historically a high percentage of AFDC/TANF recipients
first became parents outside of marriage. In 1940, 3.8 percent of births
were to unmarried women. Beginning in 1960, this percentage began to
increase, reaching 32.6 percent by 1992. It remained steady for a few years,
before rising to 40.7 percent in 2011.”
It was also 40.7 percent in 2012, according to the CDC. That made 2012 the
fifth year in a row in which 40 percent or more of American babies were born
to unmarried mothers. | m********s
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: 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
: 发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
: 标 题: 2011年美国23.1%人口领取福利，达到历史高点
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jul 9 14:50:30 2014, 美东)
: (CNSNews.com) - According to the 2014 version of a report that the
: Department of Health and Human Services is required by law to issue annually
: , the percentage of Americans on welfare in 2011 was the highest yet
: calculated. The data for 2011 is the most recent in the report.
: HHS has calculated the percentage of all persons in the United States who
: live in families that receive “welfare” going back to fiscal 1993. It has
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