Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages - CNBC
Statistics are often ovewhelming.
The number of people on food stamps, in prison, with babies out of wedlock, or who can't read is always surprising to me.
So now we have some additional ones...
The number of people on food stamps, in prison, with babies out of wedlock, or who can't read is always surprising to me.
So now we have some additional ones...
John Melloy writes about it at CNBC.com. He begins:
"Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance—make up more than a third of total wages and salaries of the U.S. population, a record figure that will only increase if action isn’t taken before the majority of Baby Boomers enter retirement.
Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent of wages and salaries this year, up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960, according to TrimTabs Investment Research using Bureau of Economic Analysis data."
