10 States Spending the Most on Welfare per capita. - YouTube

Have you ever wondered what the state spends the most on welfare?

I'm gonna let you know right now. What is going on everyone?

Welcome back the world according to Briggs

let's take a look at the welfare system and how much is spent on it welfare

isn't what most people think it isn't a system where money is given

out to people that are too lazy to work don't get me wrong not saying there

aren't people gaming the system and doing just that there's a lot of

them it's a flaw in the system that needs to be fixed

it's fraud in my opinion public welfare includes cash assistance paid to needy

persons through a variety of different programs now

i'm a firm believer in these programs sometimes people need a little help

that's just a fact of life that's what these programs are

supposed to do give you a little help for a little while not to live off of it

in the us we spend more than 600 billion on public

assistance annually that's according to the u.s

census bureau's 2018 annual survey of state and local

governments finances this list is about the state spending

the most per capita keep in mind we are ranking the public

welfare per capita spending not the total amount spent per welfare

recipient you may look at the number i give and think

well that's not much annually just keep in mind 80

of the state's residents don't get any benefits this is just like maybe

10 to 20 of the population are receiving benefits so

kind of a weird number but you get it as we go along alright let's see what we

got number 10 kentucky kentucky has been

broke for many years they have some incredibly beautiful towns they just

have a whole bunch of bad neighborhoods in the city and far too many people in

rural areas that aren't able to make ends meet this of course gives you a

high poverty rate the poverty rate in kentucky is 16.7

the national average is 11.8 currently now if you watch this year from now

because the pandemic when next year's numbers come out it might be a lot

higher but right now it's 16.7 percent in kentucky and 11.8

nationally the welfare spending per capita is 2517.

the total public welfare expenditure in kentucky is 11.2

billion dollars number nine oregon who didn't see this one coming

oregon has a high cost of living and a homeless problem

that they dump millions and millions of dollars into every single year now i'm

not slamming the homeless they are fellow americans that have been

dealt an incredibly crappy hand and we have to try and get them back on

their feet when we can some of them as you know if you know anything about

the homeless are just kind of beyond help at some point

oregon is a very desirable place to live maybe

a little less than a couple years back but it has been a move to hotspot for a

very long time this created a lot of extra problems we didn't already have

like housing shortage affordable housing shortage and a high cost living

all of the problems here in portland and in some of our rural communities gets us

on this list welfare spending per capita is 2520

total public welfare expenditure is 10.4 billion dollars

number eight maine maine is one of the states that spend the most on welfare

per capita however it's among the top 15 states

with the lowest total public welfare expenditure

that is because they don't have many people 1.3 million in the whole state

there's neighborhoods in new york that have more than that they do have one of

the oldest populations in the country and this leads to a lot of older folks

needing little help and that's fine it's what these programs were designed for

i was a little alarmed though when i read how much viagra was being

prescribed in maine and then you factor in that it's an older crop what

is going on in maine that they need that much viagra

welfare spending per capita is 2 530 the total public welfare expenditure is

3.3 billion dollars in maine number seven

delaware delaware is the first state if you ever visit wilmington delaware

you'll see the first city of suckage yeah i'll show myself out most of the

people in delaware live in wilmington this is not a great city by any stretch

of the imagination it is wrecked with crime and poverty

it's funny how those two always go together crime and poverty

it's never like crime and prosperity you know i mean unless

you're a very successful criminal then yeah maybe but still

moving on the per capita spending in delaware is among the highest but the

state's total welfare expenditure is the seventh lowest in the nation the welfare

spending per capita is two thousand five hundred and forty four dollars

in delaware the total public welfare expenditure is two point

four five billion dollars yeah that's not bad when you consider

you know how much they're spending per capita

number six new mexico it's not a surprise that new mexico is one of the

states that spends the most on welfare it has the third highest poverty rate in

the nation at 18.2 percent that believe it or not folks is an

improvement they had the highest poverty rate

a few years back when they took the top spot from mississippi in the early 2010s

this is also not a great state to have any money in

because they have a high property crime rate and if you buy anything

someone's eventually gonna take it from your porch or your backyard or

whatever welfare spending per capita in new mexico

is two thousand seven hundred and forty one dollars

the total public welfare expenditure is 5.72 billion

number five minnesota the gopher state has about six million residents and they

have been in the news a lot in the last few months

and not for good stuff either i was just there in july it was nice nice weather

nice scenery a little person gave me the finger on a bridge

you know a good time minnesota is a good sized state with one major city

minneapolis stop typing madison is a nice city

it's just not a big city most of the welfare dollars land in minneapolis

as you probably already figured out minnesota is among the top five states

that spend the most on welfare per capita

that's obvious because they're number five on this list but it's among the top

15 highest in total public welfare

expenditure so yeah it's another one those that's kind of weird

the welfare spending per capita in minnesota is two thousand

eight hundred and five dollars and the total public welfare expenditure

is 15.6 billion dollars number four vermont i bet nobody saw

this one coming i mean with a world-class bed and breakfast

scene vermont has how could anyone be out of a job i just don't understand

it's just one of those things i don't understand sort of like the c

and the ce on a calculator i don't know what's

going on there if you're down on your luck and need some help vermont is

probably one of the best states to help although vermont's welfare spending per

capita is high its total welfare spending is very low

and as we've already learned that has a lot to do with its low population

the welfare spending per capita in vermont is 2

842 and the total public welfare expenditure is 1.7 billion

yeah not terrible on the overall thing but

they're on the list number three massachusetts the amount of people

living in poverty is actually below the national

average in massachusetts it's only 10.1 percent that's not bad but they still

make it on this list in part because they have such a high

cost living and pretty much their two major cities boston and hartford

this causes a lot of struggling to get by and some people end up on the streets

how many of you started typing out an angry message already

because i said hartford was in massachusetts it's not it's in

connecticut love doing that to people boston and

springfield is where 90 of those welfare dollars end up it's

expensive to live in both those cities but boston is crazy

expensive welfare spending per capita is two

thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and the total public welfare expenditure

is nineteen point nine billion dollars yeah that's a lot of money

number two alaska at number two we have the frontier state alaska

this state is weird in so many ways i can't stop to tell you about them

because that would be a four hour video let's

just stick with the weirdness that applies to this video

alaska is the largest state by area but they're the 48th by population

that's kind of weird there's a lot of open land in this state and there's also

a lot of people that need help making ends meet they also get a check

every year just for being a resident of the state yeah it's kind of weird it's

not a welfare thing it's basically mineral royalties they get a

cut of because alaska is one of the least populous states its total public

welfare spending is the sixth lowest in the nation even

though their spending per capita is the second highest welfare spending

per capita in alaska is 3 thousand and twenty

dollars the total public welfare expenditure is

2.2 billion dollars and number one new york

this one should be no surprise to anyone that's lived in or around new york state

or new york city for that matter the cost of living in new york city is

crazy there's no government program that can help you survive the cost of

living in new york city other than the state lottery

it's not just new york city have any of you been to buffalo in the last decade

buffalo's starting to be brought up in the same conversations with detroit and

st louis that's not great company this entire state seems to need a little help

that's part of the reason this state's having a major

exodus right now people are flooding out of new york state california they have

it bad too but california still has more people coming

in new york city is running a hard deficit considering the fact that

residents need to make over a hundred thousand dollars to live

comfortably in new york city it's no surprise that the state's public

welfare expenditure is so high new york city has the fifth highest cost

living in the country the welfare spending per capita is 3 310

and the total public welfare expenditure is 19.9

billion dollars that's a lot of money going out to keep

people fed and taken care of and rent paid and all that other stuff that goes

in this thing now like i said at the beginning i'm not

hating on anyone for any situation they're in i'm just giving you the

numbers here of each one of these states people need a little help and there's no

shame in that happens to a lot of people

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