Saturday, July 11, 2009
California - the Welfare State
Gee, do you think this might be part of their problem?...
This comes from Chris Reed at SignOnSanDiego.com:
"As of September 2008, the latest available data, there were 3,821,600 people in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program getting government checks while they (in theory) sought to transition from welfare to work.
32 percent were from California! 1,226,362! California has 36.8 million of the nation's 304 million people -- 12 percent. (I'm using this Census Bureau Excel chart for all population figures in this post.) So we have nearly three times the number of people in this welfare program as our state population would suggest.
It only gets more amazing from here. California has more welfare recipients in this program than the next eight states combined! States with a total population of 95.8 million.
1. California -- 1,226,362 recipients -- 36.8 million population
2. New York -- 252,434 recipients -- 19.5 million population
3. Ohio -- 178,652 recipients -- 11.5 million population
4. Michigan -- 154,985 recipients -- 10 million population
5. Tennessee -- 138,744 recipients -- 6.2 million population
6. Washington -- 122,477 recipients -- 6.5 million population
7. Indiana -- 117,987 recipients -- 6.4 million population
8. Texas -- 114,258 recipients -- 24.3 million population
9. Pennsylvania -- 113,826 recipients -- 12.4 million population
This is stunning stuff."
