Look How Many People are Supported on the Backs of 86 Million Workers

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By USDR

 

 

Buried deep on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau is a number every American citizen, and especially those entrusted with public office, should know. It is 86,429,000.

 

 

That is the number of Americans who in 2012 got up every morning and went to work — in the private sector — and did it week after week after week.

 

 

The Census Bureau also estimates the size of the benefit-receiving population.

 

 

All told, including both the welfare recipients and the non-welfare beneficiaries, there were 151,014,000 who “received benefits from one or more programs” in the fourth quarter of 2011. Subtract the 3,212,000 veterans, who served their country in the most profound way possible, and that leaves 147,802,000 non-veteran benefit takers.

 

 

The 147,802,000 non-veteran benefit takers outnumbered the 86,429,000 full-time private sector workers 1.7 to 1.

 

 

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