How much does your state
spend on social welfare as percentage of its annual budget? The Washington Examiner published the
following:
Nationwide, state governments collectively
spend $2 trillion, with $520 billion of that going toward welfare programs, or
just under 26 percent. Education is the highest category of state government
spending, with 30 percent of state government spending nationwide
Every state that spends less than one-fifth of
its budget on welfare is west of the Mississippi River. Besides that,
geographic regions have a wide variance in welfare spending as a portion of
state budgets. New York spends 32 percent of its budget on welfare, while
neighboring New Jersey spends 22 percent. Florida spends 28 percent of its
budget on welfare, while nearby South Carolina spends 21 percent.
What does your state
spend?
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