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Blacks More Likely to Get Welfare Penalties

In Civil Rights, Politics & Law posted by TD Staff

The African American population in the United States is more likely than the White population to experience the sanctions of the welfare system.

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The new investigation, which combined data from the Florida Welfare Transition program and also from experimental research, conducted on case workers, showed that African Americans are indeed vulnerable to welfare sanctions, and especially those with a history of sanction. That is to say, those who had none at the time of the study were 29 percent more likely than Whites to receive one, while those who already had a sanction were 45 percent more likely than Whites to get another one.



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