Well, 35% (a minority) of Black people are in poverty, so that means that 65% (a MAJORITY) ARE NOT IN POVERTY. Why do some "folks" like to make the MINORITY of "the Blacks" the face of the MAJORITY of Blacks who are NOT in poverty? The unemployment rate for Blacks is 14.4% so that mean that 85.6% of "the Blacks" are NOT unemployed! Again, why do some of you "folks" want to make that 14.4% represent the 85.6% who are working?
Too "funny"!
Poverty is one measure, the number receiving welfare is another measure. I believe a part of the issue is that the black population is twice as likely as non-black population to be living in poverty and collecting welfare. Given that the black population almost entirely votes democrat, one can assume a correlation between voting and collecting welfare, thus leading to abuse of the system and generations staying in poverty. Welfare reform through duration limits was an improvement that coincidentally coincided with a boom in American production. Obama threw out welfare reform, thus giving moochers a reason to stay on welfare and/or jump onto disability so they might become a part of the permanent moocher class. Change you can believe in.
The cost of welfare is not just the dollars spent on the hand-outs, but also the loss of production the people would otherwise engage in if they were not forced to not work to continue receiving said hand-outs.