Interesting Article, Destroying Myth Most Blacks Are On Welfare.

More whites than blacks on welfare despite myth - 39% of recipients are white, 37% are African American - Brief Article
Jet,  Nov 14, 1994 
There are 14 million welfare recipients in America. And despite what most people think, the majority are not Black.

The truth is, about 39 percent of parents on welfare are White, 37 percent Black, 18 percent Hispanic and 6 percent Asian, Native American or another race.



"My bet is that most people, if forced to name a typical welfare recipient, would talk about a Black woman, whose mother received AFDC (Aid to Families For Dependent Children) before her and whose children will receive AFDC," says Univ. of Michigan economist Greg Duncan in USA Today. Duncan told the paper that the stereotype "just does not do justice to reality."

COPYRIGHT 1994 Johnson Publishing Co.
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i know only 25% of blacks are on welfare now though. so it has dropped since 1994.