Its because of all the non first worlders in first world countries.
Remove them and the vast majority of food stamp cases disappear, like magic.

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What would you say the issues are? I see plenty asking the questions around unsustainable rates, often they are cast as bigot/racist as its a bit of a stretch to scapegoat gov safety net failures entirely on the illegal migrants.

But then you see things like native Americans still receiving lots of food stamps, head scratcher. How long does one get to lay in the safety net?

I am not American and wouldn't act as if I know their issues. It's a big country with diverse states having different economical routes. However, racial debates are a distraction most of the time. Being poor seems to be a problem towards getting education and participation in the society in the US. The poorest people are Afroamericans, fresh immigrants and the native Americans. Native Americans are very few and with a very high mortality rates. They've never been a real problem, more like the immigrants have been a pain in the a-holes for them and by that I mean ALL Americans. Most of the American population is "white". I am sure at least 70% of the people on SNAP are "white" people.

This post was edited by babun1024 on Oct 30 2025 04:59am

There was a statistic graph going around which was a percent of a racial group receiving gov stamps. The usual suspects where there, but top was Afghan and Somali. When it comes to Somali, it's odd they are still so needy after their large migration in the 90s. Im contrast, the Hmong that came around same era are not chart toppers.

Id assert that largest raw count of poor are still white people though. Also, our largest count of rich.

Well, Hmong arrived to China Town etc. with a developed Asian community. What did Somali arrive to? The misery of Afroamericans of centuries. Afghans toping the charts makes sense. They were probably helpers evacuated after the US pulled out. Their total number should be miniscule though. Whenver you have statistics with percentages but with no real absolute numbers, someone is trying to scam you.

This post was edited by babun1024 on Oct 30 2025 05:25am

A large amount came to my State of Minnesota. Used to live a block from their mass housing by local armory. It's true there was not a existing culture for them to be absorbed into like their own, but my city and State bent over backwards to elevate and accept them.

Percentages and ratios are derived from real numbers. It's a signal of how independent the group is after 35 years.

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Oct 30 2025 05:39am

For every Somali child in America, there are 10 Somali children in America suffering from poverty, hunger, homelessness, autism, special school bussing needs, personal therapy needs and whatever other social benefits we provide.

Would take that graph with a grain of salt.

The chart shared on social media originated from a June blog post from The Personal Finance Wizards, which cited “US Census Table S0201” as its source. The site offers financial advice, but published a disclaimer saying it cannot guarantee the “completeness, accuracy, or reliability” of its information.

The site’s authors appeared to cherry-pick groups to include in the chart, noting, “It’s important to note that the graph highlights a selection of ethnicities we felt would be most relevant and engaging for our audience.” It did not name an author.

In a comment on an Instagram post sharing the chart, Personal Finance Wizards shared a link to the US Census table it used. It shows data from the 2024 American Community Survey, filtered by 49 racial and ethnic groups. The filtered groups don’t completely overlap with the groups in the chart, but the dataset has a column for “households with food stamp/SNAP benefits”, which shows percentages similar to the ones in the chart.

The data does not show what percentage of all SNAP beneficiaries belong to an ethnic or nationality group.


According to the most recent USDA data available, from 2023, white people are the largest racial group receiving SNAP benefits, at 35.4 percent. African Americans are next, making up 25.7 percent of recipients, then Hispanic people at 15.6 percent, Asian people at 3.9 percent, Native Americans at 1.3 percent and multiracial people at 1 percent. The race of 17 percent of participants is unknown.


The same report found that 89.4 percent of SNAP recipients were US-born citizens, meaning less than 11 percent of SNAP participants were foreign-born. Of the latter figure, 6.2 percent were naturalised citizens, 1.1 percent were refugees and 3.3 percent were other noncitizens, including lawful permanent residents and other eligible noncitizens.



I am sure the usual groups are up there, I mean everyone here knows certain groups are more perished (Edit: LMAO, meant impoverished, had my mind on food), fact is though the wealth gap has also increased 10 fold, and the middle and lower class are more dependent than ever. The good days are long, long gone and I only foresee more bad days coming until we somehow achieve some UBI but even that will be impacted by the wealth gap, have to keep the poors poor afterall.

This post was edited by SBD on Oct 30 2025 08:01am