Re: Is it possible to create a welfare system that rewards people to be self-sufficie
When you normalize the data to adjust for inflation, the average "white" family was earning the same back in the 1960's (around $33k if I do believe). A $55k median HH income is roughly equivalent to a median HH back in the early 60's.
That's a pretty impressive trick you're showing us - calculating the specifics of your conclusion all the way back to the early 60s when the data I posted only goes back to 1992.
Anyways, so much for your made-up numbers. Here is what the real numbers show when we break down the household income to a per-person basis.
Let's break this household income down.
White families, between 1992 and 2009, have seen their per-person income jump 23.16%
Black families, between 1992 and 2009, have seen their per-person income jump 32.31%
Hispanic families, between 1992 and 2009, have seen their per-person income jump 21.00%
I'll make my point again, when we import poverty, which is what we're doing by favoring a disproportionately large Hispanic influx, then we skew the calculations for how native-born Americans are doing in the economy.
Black income is growing the fastest, no doubt due to all of the favorable hiring quotas that liberals have instituted all throughout the economy, but they still lag white incomes.
Black
birth rates are only a bit higher (2.168) than white birth rates (2.112) and both are far below Hispanic birth rates (2.995)
The upshot here is that the fastest growing demographic group in the US, via both immigration and birth, are Hispanics, and they have the lowest income as measured by household income divided by people in the household. So, when aggregated figures are reported in the press, all details like this are completely lost and uninformed people blame the economic system for depressed wages when, in fact, a good portion of the cause can be isolated to demographic shifts. In fact, the shifts are worse to come because when we look at births to unmarried women, the white birth rate (48.1/1,000) is lower than the Black birth rate (72.6/1,000) which in turn is lower than the Hispanic birth rate (108.4/1,000). This data suggests that the children are going to be requiring welfare support, will face school difficulties, and will face diminished job prospects when they reach adulthood, thus depressing aggregated income statistics even further.
Yeah, immigration and demographic shifts are a big part of the income problem that liberals like to complain about so much.
