Saturday, February 18, 2012

Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It - NYTimes.com

Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It - NYTimes.com: "The government safety net was created to keep Americans from abject poverty, but the poorest households no longer receive a majority of government benefits. A secondary mission has gradually become primary: maintaining the middle class from childhood through retirement. The share of benefits flowing to the least affluent households, the bottom fifth, has declined from 54 percent in 1979 to 36 percent in 2007, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis published last year."

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