2011美國政府福利支出:每個貧困家庭59523美元
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根據美國國會預算審計統計(PDF 原文請見:http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=0f87b42d-f182-4b3d-8ae2-fa8ac8a8edad),聯邦政府向每個貧困家庭提供了近60000美元的福利資助。根據聯邦統計局統計,美國大約有16.8million人口生活在年收入低於23000美元(合15萬人民幣左右)水準。聯邦政府提供的各種補貼使得這些貧困家庭年收入達到83000美元(合人民幣52萬左右)。
Report: Enough Spent on Welfare Programs in 2011 to Write Every Poor Household a $59,523 Check

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(CNSNews.com) –
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 )
If each of the estimated 16.8 million households with income below
the poverty level were to have received an equal share of the total
welfare spending for fiscal year 2011, they each would have received
$59,523.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) at a Capitol Hill news conference. (AP File Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
If
only the 2011 federal share of welfare spending (no state matching
funds) were spent as direct cash payments, each household would have
received $44,404, which is nearly double the federal poverty level for a
family of four.
This federal welfare spending does not include programs such as
Medicare and Social Security, because they are not means-tested
programs. Means-tested programs are those that only pay out benefits to
people whose incomes fall below a certain threshold, such as food
stamps, traditional cash welfare, and Medicaid.
In other words, if the government were to discontinue its myriad
federal welfare programs, such as housing vouchers, food stamps, and
Medicaid, and instead just wrote every poor household a check, it would
nearly quadruple their income: increasing it from at most $23,000 per
year to nearly $83,000 per year.