Americans under 18 years of age are growing up in a country where the majority of their peers live in households that take financial assistance from the federal government, The New American website reports today (August 23, 2018).
That is the conclusion from the Census Bureau's latest data on poverty and government assistance.
In 2016, the population of Americans under 18 was about 73.6 million. Some 38.4 million of them -- or 52.1 percent -- lived in homes in which someone received welfare benefits.
These benefits included the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), Medicaid, public housing, Supplemental Security Income, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and the National School Lunch Program.
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