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13234483, Their own report actually proves exactly what I'm saying.
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Wed Feb-14-18 03:44 AM
You have to analyze the data. This means understanding percentages, and this is why I mentioned in reply 17 that we are a smaller part of the population than white people (their population is 5 times as much as ours, but their snap benefits aren't even 2 times as much as ours by numbers). But let's look at the percentages:

Total households: 76,717,423

White households: 51,798,774 (67.5% of total households)

SNAP: 9,175 (that's 1.7% of white households)

Black households: 8,593,287 (11.2% of total households)

SNAP: 5,854 (that's 6.8% of black households)


****Therefore, Black households will be affected 4 times as much as white households by this change.****

*I used the data from 2013, because I couldn't locate data for Households, by Family Size, Race and Ethnicity for 2016. The most significant change in 2016 is that there were roughly 1,000 less white people on SNAP and roughly 500 less Black people on it. Both demographics still make up roughly the same percentage of the overall population.

edit: here are the links to the data I used...

households by race:
http://www.pewhispanic.org/ph_2015-03_statistical-portrait-of-hispanics-in-the-united-states-2013_current-40/

SNAP by race (page 76 in the report, 94 in the PDF):
https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/Characteristics2013.pdf