OMG you are cracking me up. Those numbers are per ethnic group, not percentages of recipients overall.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.al.com/articles/11489642/everything_you_think_about_foo.amp
In all of America white people collect more in food stamps than any other race. That's a useful statistic to use against racists who say all SNAP users are lazy minorities who don't want to work BTW.
That's kind of the point. If you were to talk about percentage of recipients overall, of course there would be more white people in SNAP because there are more white people in the country. But when you look at *the proportion* of how many people are on the programme by each race, that's where you see the inequality.
That's what I mean when I say that you're looking at the wrong things.
In all of America, yes there are more white people than any other demographic on food stamps. But when you look at *proportions* you see a very different picture. There is a far larger PROPORTION of POC who require these programmes than white people.
Across America the numbers are:
Black: 27.1%
Other: 23.2%
Hispanic: 20.1%
Mixed: 19.7%
White: 8.5%
One in every four black people require food stamps.
One in every five Hispanic people require food stamps.
One in every twelve white people require food stamps.
If we lived in a society that didn't advantage white people pretty much across the board, these numbers would be more equal. The *proportions* would be more equal.
So yes, there is still a huge disparity. You are MORE LIKELY to require these programmes if you are not white than if you were white. And that's just only one category we can measure this inequality by. Pretty much EVERY OTHER CATEGORY we measure it by follows the same pattern.
And that remains as true in South Florida as it is in the rest of the USA.
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