Enough Spent on Welfare Programs in 2011 to Give Every Poor Household $59,523

[Chris_]

Report: Enough Spent on Welfare Programs in 2011 to Write Every Poor Household a $59,523 Check

The federal government spent enough money on federal means-tested welfare programs to have sent each impoverished household a check for nearly $60,000, according to figures from the Census Bureau and the Congressional Research Service (CRS).

According to a report from the CRS produced for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), $1 trillion was spent on federal welfare programs during fiscal year 2011 – with $746 billion in federal funds and $254 in state matching funds.

The U.S. Census Bureau reported that there were approximately 16.8 million households living below the federal poverty level of $23,000 per year for a family of four in 2011. ( See:  2011 Households Below Poverty 2011.pdf )

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Must be nice to be poor.

[thundley4]

Bureaucracy and red tape consumed most of the money in the war on poverty.  Poverty won the war with it's biggest ally being the government.

[Duke Nukum]

If it actually got to poor people, that would defeat the point.

[marv]

Bureaucracy and red tape consumed most of the money in the war on poverty.  Poverty won the war with it's biggest ally being the government.

$59,523 - $23,000 = $36,523 in Federal salaries, aka "the middleman"....

If it actually got to poor people, that would defeat the point.

...which would result in great unemployment - among Federal employees.

[thundley4]

$59,523 - $23,000 = $36,523 in Federal salaries, aka "the middleman"....
...which would result in great unemployment - among Federal employees.

That would just mean they would have to find productive work.  Besides, lefties have no problem adding to the unemployed ranks if they come from military cuts.

[Chris_]

$59,523 - $23,000 = $36,523 in Federal salaries, aka "the middleman".

That's where all the jobs Obama "saved or created" went to.