Courtesy of Mish.
As a result of Obamacare Medicaid expansion coupled with means-tested Obamacare assistance, I estimate welfare rolls expanded from 35.4% of the population in 2012 to about 40% in 2014.
Let's go through the math to see how I make that estimate.
The latest welfare statistics are from year-end 2012. Those figures show 35.4 Percent: 109,631,000 on Welfare.
109,631,000 living in households taking federal welfare benefits as of the end of 2012, according to the Census Bureau, equaled 35.4 percent of all 309,467,000 people living in the United States at that time.
When those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs — such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits — were added to those taking welfare benefits, it turned out that 153,323,000 people were getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012.
Subtract the 3,297,000 who were receiving veterans' benefits from the total, and that leaves 150,026,000 people receiving non-veterans' benefits.
The 153,323,000 total benefit-takers at the end of 2012, said the Census Bureau, equaled 49.5 percent of the population. The 150,026,000 taking benefits other than veterans' benefits equaled about 48.5 percent of the population.
In 2012, according to the Census Bureau, there were 103,087,000 full-time year-round workers in the United States (including 16,606,000 full-time year-round government workers). Thus, the welfare-takers outnumbered full-time year-round workers by 6,544,000.
Breakdown by Category
- 82,679,000 Medicaid
- 51,471,000 Food Stamps
- 22,526,000 Women, Infants and Children Program
- 20,355,000 Supplemental Security Income
- 13,267,000 Public Housing or Housing Subsidies
- 5,442,000 Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
- 4,517,000 Other Forms of Federal Cash Assistance
Population Estimates (2013 estimates)
- California 38,332,521
- Texas 26,448,193
- New York 19,651,127
- Florida 19,552,860
Those four states have a population of 103,984,701. Those on welfare nearly totals that amount.
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