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by Posted on " Your Assumptions About Welfare Recipients Are Wrong" Share: CREDIT: AP The stereotype of the low-income people enrolled in government programs is that they spend the money on frivolities and are unwise with their budgets. But the data proves otherwise.

by Posted on " Your Assumptions About Welfare Recipients Are Wrong" Share: CREDIT: AP The stereotype of the low-income people enrolled in government programs is that they spend the money on frivolities and are unwise with their budgets. But the data proves otherwise.

Data on likelihood to repeat cycle of poverty, impact of poverty on educational attainment

Exactly two years ago, some of the more politically biased progressive media outlets (who are quite adept at creating and taking down their own strawmen arguments, if not quite as adept at using an abacus, let alone a calculator) took offense at our article "In Entitlement America, The Head Of A Household Of Four Making Minimum Wage Has More Disposable Income Than A Family Making $60,000 A Year."

Study of impact of receiving welfare after 1996 TANF reforms

Why Income Inequality Hurts Kids and Families POSTED MARCH 11, 2014, BY THE ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is not just the nation's largest nutrition assistance program, but it is also a key social infrastructure bridging the chasm separating "working hungry" families from families that are financially stable. But the SNAP formula that determines benefits based on how much it costs to provide families with good nutrition needs 21st century updates.