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Из книги A Nation of Takers: America's Entitlement Epidemic. Саму книгу пока не читал, но в список занесу.
- Government transfers now account for nearly 18% of all personal income in America—up from 6% in 1960.
- America’s social-welfare programs currently dispense entitlement benefits of more than $2.3 trillion annually.
- Today, entitlement programs account for nearly two-thirds of federal spending.
- Nearly half (49%) of Americans today live in homes receiving one or more government transfer benefits. That percentage is up almost 20 points from the early 1980s. Only about one-tenth of the increase is due to upticks in old-age pensions and health-care programs for seniors.
- About 35% of Americans are accepting money, goods or services from “means-tested” government programs. This percentage is twice as high as in the early 1980s. Only a third of all Americans receiving government entitlement transfers are seniors on Social Security and Medicare.
- The proportion of adult men 20 and older working or seeking work dropped by 13 percentage points between 1948 and 2008.
- More than 7% of men in their late 30s (the prime working age-group) had totally checked out of the workforce, even before the recent recession. This workforce opt-out was more than twice that of contemporary Greece.
- In December 2012, more than 8.8 million working-age men and women took disability payments from the government — nearly three times as many as in December 1990. For every 17 people in the labor force, there is now one recipient of Social Security disability program payments.
- The Department of Health and Human Services reports that more than 12.4 million working-age Americans obtained disability income support from all government programs in 2011. That’s more than the total number of employees in the manufacturing sector of the economy.
- Government transfers now account for nearly 18% of all personal income in America—up from 6% in 1960.
- America’s social-welfare programs currently dispense entitlement benefits of more than $2.3 trillion annually.
- Today, entitlement programs account for nearly two-thirds of federal spending.
- Nearly half (49%) of Americans today live in homes receiving one or more government transfer benefits. That percentage is up almost 20 points from the early 1980s. Only about one-tenth of the increase is due to upticks in old-age pensions and health-care programs for seniors.
- About 35% of Americans are accepting money, goods or services from “means-tested” government programs. This percentage is twice as high as in the early 1980s. Only a third of all Americans receiving government entitlement transfers are seniors on Social Security and Medicare.
- The proportion of adult men 20 and older working or seeking work dropped by 13 percentage points between 1948 and 2008.
- More than 7% of men in their late 30s (the prime working age-group) had totally checked out of the workforce, even before the recent recession. This workforce opt-out was more than twice that of contemporary Greece.
- In December 2012, more than 8.8 million working-age men and women took disability payments from the government — nearly three times as many as in December 1990. For every 17 people in the labor force, there is now one recipient of Social Security disability program payments.
- The Department of Health and Human Services reports that more than 12.4 million working-age Americans obtained disability income support from all government programs in 2011. That’s more than the total number of employees in the manufacturing sector of the economy.
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