http://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/whos-on-welfare-9-shocking-stats-about-public-assistance.html/?a=viewall
This link it has a study on who gets welfare in the US. The increase is of people working low paying jobs that rely on welfare to subsidize their income and single women with children who are the head of the household. The average pay out for monthly assistance is 400. a month per household. There are millions of low income seniors and the disabled getting assistance. The Federal Poverty Level Guidelines for a single person ranges from 12,060 - 16,643 income a year. So a fulltime minimum wage job with 7.an hour base pay averages 14,000 a year income. A way to get people off of welfare that can work, is to raise the minimum wage and create jobs so that people can make more money or help to train people for jobs so they can earn more money. The military is a choice for many low income youth but they find they get low wages and often not train for jobs that they can work later.