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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Gov Sanders of Arkansas is getting a hard time for portraying a “welfare” recipient as a young white guy, so I asked an “AI” (Perplexity) to look it up for SNAP (“food stamps”) recipients (“welfare” is a mixed bag of programs). in summary:
“Thus, the supported answer is: approximately 52% white and 31% Black in the August 2024 racial snapshot, and approximately 42% children in the fiscal-year 2023 annual caseload; the Arkansas recipient-level gender split remains unverified. These are dated datasets, not a single October 2026 demographic snapshot.”
if memory serves me, the current rate is about $6.30 per person per day