It's not like the entire 9 million residents were on public assistance for the entire 8 years. People come and go, most public assistance programs are time-limited.
Yes I've addressed that but still 9M people out of 10M over 8 years is a huge part of the population even when accounting for natural population changes and migration patterns.
With ballpark numbers on migration[1] and natural population growth it would mean that approximately 70% of the current LA county population today would've used "public assistance" given the 9M figure.
This is why the definition of "public assistance" is very important since all the statistics and the numbers in that article don't pass a simple smell test.
With ballpark numbers on migration[1] and natural population growth it would mean that approximately 70% of the current LA county population today would've used "public assistance" given the 9M figure.
This is why the definition of "public assistance" is very important since all the statistics and the numbers in that article don't pass a simple smell test.
[1]https://www.census.gov/hhes/migration/files/acs/county-to-co...