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The population has grown. Obviously spending increases. However, access to the safety net has decreased as have the net benefits. In other news water is wet.
by sjg007 8y ago
The population has grown. Obviously spending increases. However, access to the safety net has decreased as have the net benefits. In other news water is wet.
- refurb 8y agoThe US population annual growth has barely broken 1% in the last 50 years. Social spending has increased at a greater rate.
- nugget 8y agoI used to believe this but it turns out that net benefits (by almost any measure) have increased continually: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-16/the-u-s-social-safety-net-has-improved-a-lot https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-16/the-u-... The fact that so many people don't "feel" more secure from these very expensive investments may point to other structural problems.
- sjg007 8y agoHuh.. thanks for the clarification. I should have googled first!
- Aeolun 8y agoOr maybe the social security net was always atrocious, now it’s just a little bit less so. (Not saying that’s necessarily the case, just that it could be)
- refurb 8y agoThe US has a larger social spending budget than Canada. So if the US is “less horrendous”, then canada’s must be even worse?