Enough Spent on Welfare Programs in 2011 to Write Every Poor Household a $59,523 Check
The federal government spent enough money on federal means-tested welfare programs to have sent each impoverished household a check for nearly $60,000, according to figures from the Census Bureau and the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
According to a report from the CRS produced for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), $1 trillion was spent on federal welfare programs during fiscal year 2011 – with $746 billion in federal funds and $254 in state matching funds. (Read More)
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Sorry, Publisher. If you’re sending me messages, they’re too cryptic for me. Maybe I don’t read this blog often enough.
And if the government workers used to implement these programs and oversee them were out of government employ and the savings added to the kitty…we might have a few more millionaires in the country.
HEY – that guy IS a millionaire. He begs for “money for food” under the bridges and at intersections in Anywhere, USA.