Having lived in California for a long time, I followed the budget crisis there with some interest. Last night, I ran across this item in Instapundit: "20% in Los Angeles County receive public aid."
I am sure that I'm not the only one who's noticed how almost all of the discussion over California's budget problems managed to avoid using such words as "immigrant" or "illegal". So I decided to do a few calculations using the 2008 Current Population Survey to follow up on Instapundit's remark. Well, here are some interesting results for your perusal--no remarks are needed:
All statistics give the fraction of households in the LA metro area that receive some type of assistance--either cash, food stamps, or Medicaid:
All households: 20.9%
Native households: 12.7%
Immigrant households: 33.2%
Immigrant households with a citizen head: 26.4%
Immigrant households with a non-citizen head: 40.1%
Just to put things in context, 40% of households in the LA metro area are immigrant households.
(For the computing geeks amongst you who want to see the documentation, here is the computer file summarizing the results. The data is the publicly available 2008 March CPS file from IPUMS. A household is defined as a native or immigrant household based on the status of the household head.)
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