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    Anteil des persönlichen Einkommens aus staatlichen Transfers nach US-Bezirk


    Anteil des persönlichen Einkommens aus staatlichen Transfers nach US-Bezirk

    Von AshleyMyers44

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    2. DrRonOfficial on

      Notice a pattern? Rural, conservative areas are getting the most government income. Lol.

    3. Sarcastic_Backpack on

      Government transfers = Handouts. If you’ve ever taken one of these without it being the absolute last resort, shame on you!

    4. OcoBri on

      The yellow counties in the Florida Peninsula (I don’t know anything about the Panhandle) are full of retirees from the north collecting social security and pensions they “earned” in another state.

    6. polycro on

      I’m in Oktibbeha County in Mississippi where MSU is and this map has us coded in the moderate category. I am literally paid from USDA and NOAA money along with all of the other bazillion dollars that come into the university from the feds. How was this data tabulated?

      Overall I know Mississippi gets a lot of federal dollars. Stennis Space Center on the coast with NASA’s test stands and the Navy’s super computers, Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, ERDC in Vicksburg with their research and super computers, and us lowly universities with federal contracts.

    10. ArgoShots on

      Does this include U. S. Government employees? Does it include members of the military?

    12. BrocElLider on

      This is dumb, it’s just a map of age and poverty. Social Security (age), Medicare (age), and Medicaid (income) make up around 90% of govt transfers. So it’s just showing counties with more old people and more poor people. And expressing the transfers as a share of total income rather than in absolute dollars just biases it even more against poorer counties with lower avg incomes.

      A much better map would show the per capita, absolute amount of unearned material govt benefits. Not retirement income from a system that a worker paid into, not insurance, but cash (Supplemental Security Income, TANF, Tax credits), food (SNAP, WIC), and housing (public and section 8 vouchers). That’s what most people are thinking of when they talk about of welfare.

    13. Cl987654322 on

      Total share of personal income is probably a bad metric. I’m assuming it’s (gov’t payments)/(total income). You only need a few extremely high earners to skew the data. For example, a million people could get $40k a year from the gov’t, but there’s one dude bringing in $400m a year. That’s only 10%. This is likely what’s happening in metropolitan areas. It’d be more interesting to see the % of people receiving any government transfers.

    14. TralfamadorianZoo on

      Remember this map when rural people say urbanites shouldn’t get to decide elections.

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