CA has 5.6 TIMES the average % of welfare recipients found in the other 49 states
Here’s the latest annual U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report to Congress on TANF and SSP [welfare] recipients, using the latest figures from 2015:
U.S.******4,170,107 recipients
CA*******1,803,873 recipients
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/twelfth-report-to-congress page 20
In other words, CA — with 12% of the nation’s population — has an appalling 43.3% of our nation’s needy that require taxpayer assistance. Last time I checked a few years ago, CA had not quite 1/3 of these welfare recipients. As far as I know, no CA press has reported this increase to 43+%.… Read More