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Over the past decade, available reports show persistent disparities in welfare participation by race: non‑Hispanic white people make up the largest absolute share of some program caseloads (e.g., SNAP...
Available reporting does not give a single authoritative federal figure showing the share of U.S. Somali households receiving SNAP; viral posts have claimed 42.4% but those posts are unverified and co...
The claim “Do Black people use EBT more than white people” is partially true depending on the metric: . Recent federal summaries and reporting show Black households participate at higher rates than wh...
Owsley County, Kentucky is among the poorest U.S. counties with high poverty and heavy reliance on government benefits; multiple data sets put poverty in the roughly 24–29% range and show SNAP partici...
There is no single public source among the results that lists 2024–2025 SNAP/EBT participation rates broken down both by county and by race in Minnesota. Statewide snapshots show roughly 440,000–454,0...
The available sources show the official HHS poverty guidelines were updated for 2025 and published in the Federal Register; the 2025 guideline for a single person in the contiguous 48 states is $15,65...
The question can mean two different things: the share of welfare recipients who are White, or the share of White Americans who receive welfare; the available reporting provides clear answers for the f...
Young voters showed the largest turnout shortfalls in 2024: multiple sources put overall youth (ages 18–29 or 18–34 depending on the study) turnout far below older groups—Census data shows 65.3% of th...
Publicly available reporting indicates net immigration to the United States rose markedly during the Biden years and was substantially lower during the Trump presidency, with analysts and agencies cau...
Available reporting and peer-reviewed analyses consistently find that undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are arrested and convicted at lower rates than native‑born Americans: an NIJ‑funded Texas stud...
Most credible analyses show , though SNAP participation rises with unemployment during downturns. Federal data and recent reporting converge on the point that many SNAP households contain workers or r...
Independent economists largely treated the Trump administration’s 2025 job-growth claims with skepticism: they acknowledged private-sector additions and low unemployment but flagged that overall hirin...
HHS updates to the federal poverty guidelines pushed the baseline 2026 FPL amounts above the 2025 levels; those 2026 guidelines are indexed annually for inflation using CPI-based adjustments and are u...
Recent USDA-related analyses and reporting consistently show that roughly , a share substantially larger than the Black share of the U.S. population, indicating among program users. Multiple analyses ...
As of the sources available through October 2025, reported for how many immigrant households receive SNAP benefits nationwide; the materials reviewed explicitly do not provide that figure and instead ...
There is no single published figure in the supplied reporting that gives a nationwide turnout rate specifically for "Somali‑American eligible voters" in 2024; available sources discuss high local enga...
Available U.S. data show Black Americans are overrepresented among some benefit programs but are not the majority of all welfare recipients: SNAP participation was about 26% Black in recent USDA repor...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive percentage of Americans aged 70+ who live in "retirement communities." Estimates about older adults’ living arrangements are scattered across indu...
Federal, state and local governments together funded nearly all U.S. education spending in 2023: multiple sources put total K–12 spending in the high hundreds of billions (one estimate at $947 billion...
White people constitute the single largest racial group among SNAP recipients by raw count, but they do not constitute a majority and the program serves a racially and ethnically diverse population. ,...