Who’s Using the Social Safety Net? More and More, It’s the Middle Class

From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org):

The Fiscal Times, September 4, 2018
The Brookings Institute reports that middle-class income groups accounted for 23 percent of means-tested social welfare spending in 1979, but that number increased to about 46 percent in 2014. The 2014 percentage roughly matches social welfare spending for the poorest 20 percent of families. The report also notes that SNAP spending was one of the two biggest drivers of the increase.

Read more at http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2018/09/04/Whos-Using-Social-Safety-Net-More-and-More-It-s-Middle-Class.