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Black Americans on welfare 2010s

The percentage of Black Americans receiving welfare benefits in the 2010s, including the distinction between the share of recipients who are Black and the share of Black people who receive benefits.

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what percentage of black Americans are on welfare

The answer depends on what is being measured: roughly one in eight Black Americans were receiving at least one means-tested benefit in the average month in the early 2010s, while Black people make up ...