{"id":73367,"date":"2015-09-02T06:57:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73367"},"modified":"2015-09-02T06:57:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T14:57:56","slug":"report-more-than-half-of-immigrants-on-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73367","title":{"rendered":"Report: More than half of immigrants on welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2015\/09\/01\/immigrant-welfare-use-report\/71517072\/\">Story<\/a>: More than half of the nation&#8217;s immigrants receive some kind of government welfare, a figure that&#8217;s far higher than the native-born population, according to a report to be released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>About 51% of immigrant-led households receive at least one kind of welfare benefit, including Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches and housing assistance, compared to 30% for native-led households, according to the report from the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for lower levels of immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Those numbers increase for households with children, with 76% of immigrant-led households receiving welfare, compared to 52% for the native-born.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are sure to fuel debate on the presidential campaign trail as Republican candidates focus on changing the nation&#8217;s immigration laws, from calls for mass deportations to ending birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story: More than half of the nation&#8217;s immigrants receive some kind of government welfare, a figure that&#8217;s far higher than the native-born population, according to a report to be released Wednesday. About 51% of immigrant-led households receive at least one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73367\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73368,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73367\/revisions\/73368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}