``The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities calculated that approximately 70 percent of the federal spending that Rector classified as `welfare' went to households that did not receive Aid to Families With Dependent Children, the core welfare program in recent decades. Instead, most of the money went to non-AFDC households with elderly, disabled or `medically needy' individuals, as well as students and low-income workers--not groups most people would associate with `welfare.' ''
So that explains it. If you include all the money that goes for medical care, attendent care, equipment, and home services and count that as household income, it would look as if the disabled I visit are middle income. What a sleaze bag.
Anyway thanks. It's good to know Rector is a well known fraud. It needs to be said that such support is not intended to get anybody out of poverty. It is intended to keep them out of even more costly institutionalization.
CG