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[Fry Guy]

It just means that the percentage of poor whites is lower and they're not as poor as poor minorities before receiving the same amount of government assistance.

i just don't get that from the chart. I looked to see if it said anywhere that the white people were not as poor as the black people. 

Minorities earn less than whites on the whole, which contributes to higher and deeper poverty rates.  

That's a well documented, unfortunate, and long-standing fact that applies to the working poor, which makes up a large portion of government assistance recipients.   

As previously posted, government assistance helps push 44% of poor whites over the poverty line.  That doesn't mean they've stopped needing government assistance.  It just means they're not as poor.  

As covered in the posted/linked article, government programs also help pull 43% of poor blacks over the poverty line.  Government programs also help pull 28% of poor Hispanics over the poverty line (a lower percentage of poor Hispanics are assisted by the government, in part, because undocumented Hispanic adults are counted in census, but not eligible for government assistance).

While the amount of some government assistance programs is based on income, other government programs distribute set amounts to all recipients. 

There are a lot of factors involved, which is why my initial point was specific.  I'm not interested in getting into the weeds on this topic here again.  

While white people generally earn more than minorities and the percentage of white people who are poor is lower than the percentage of black people who are poor, there are millions more poor white citizens receiving 'welfare' than there are black citizens receiving welfare at any given time.  Most of those poor white citizens live in areas of the country largely supportive of President Trump.

That's my point, which is not debatable. And, I don't think it's difficult to grasp.  I'm moving off this topic now Mags.  But, if you're really interested in becoming better informed on the topic, there's plenty of government and private data, statistics, percentages, and analysis available on-line.

I love seeing the intellectually dishonest react all haughty and indignant when challenged and then run the intellectual superior (and/or moral superior) tactic.

It is laugh in their face hysterical