MPI: More than 10 Million Foreign Nationals Receive Taxpayer-funded Welfare Benefits
Published:
Thu, Jun 14th 2018 @ 5:40 pm EDT
A recent report by the Migration Policy Institute, entitled Chilling Effects: The Expected Public Charge Rule and Its Impact on Legal Immigrant Families' Public Benefits Use, revealed that 10.3 million out of the 22 million foreign nationals in the U.S. receive benefits from at least one welfare program funded by taxpayer dollars. Additionally, 54.2% of foreign national children, age 17 and younger, are granted welfare benefits. The data also showed that 46.3% of foreign national welfare recipients are adults, age 18 to 54, and 47.8% are older than 54.
https://www.numbersusa.com/news/mpi-more-10-million-foreign-nationals-receive-taxpayer-funded-welfare-benefits
