Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Is the U.S. Becoming a Welfare State?

Daniel Indiviglio suggests that increasingly we are:

Uncle Sam has been aggressively increasing Americans' allowance recently. Government entitlement programs have grown to account for 35% of wages, according to a new analysis by Madeline Schnapp, director of macroeconomic research at investment research firm TrimTabs. The magnitude of government assistance has increased in large part due to high unemployment. But she argues that even when unemployment declines, we aren't like to see this percentage drop much.


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He argues that this is likely to increase given the aging of the 78 million baby boomers.