Of the 67.9 million recipients of welfare, 10.2 million are receiving unemployment insurance. (Statistic Brain) This number doesn’t even include all unemployed recipients of welfare, just the ones receiving insurance. According to a recent report from the Cato Institute, the federal government spends $668 million dollars annually on 126 different welfare programs, while spending from state and local governments push that number up to around $1 trillion annually. If we were able to require more from the recipients and make it harder to get on welfare, then we can ultimately have more working people, less citizens in poverty, and more money in the state and federal governments’
Of the 67.9 million recipients of welfare, 10.2 million are receiving unemployment insurance. (Statistic Brain) This number doesn’t even include all unemployed recipients of welfare, just the ones receiving insurance. According to a recent report from the Cato Institute, the federal government spends $668 million dollars annually on 126 different welfare programs, while spending from state and local governments push that number up to around $1 trillion annually. If we were able to require more from the recipients and make it harder to get on welfare, then we can ultimately have more working people, less citizens in poverty, and more money in the state and federal governments’