- Description
Overall, immigrants are less likely to consume welfare benefits and, when they do, they generally consume a lower dollar value of benefits than native-born Americans. This appears contrary to the study conducted by the CIS (Publication 3), but Cato claims its work is more accurate because it examines individuals with immigration status, while CIS measures welfare use by households headed by immigrants (which often contain multiple native-born Americans).
- Published by
- Cato Institute
- Funded by
- Charles Koch Foundation
- Issue areas
- Immigration
- Welfare and Public Assistance
- Document type
- Issue/Policy Brief
- Geography
- North America / United States
- Language
- English
- Copyright
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
- What to read next
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- Title
- Immigration and the Welfare State: Immigrant and Native Use Rates and Benefit Levels for Means-Tested Welfare and Entitlement Programs
- Publication date
- 2018-05-10
- Publication year
- 2018
- Authors
- Alex Nowrasteh , Robert Orr
- Copyright holder(s)
- Cato Institute
- Geographical focus
- North America / United States
- Keywords
- cash assistance, welfare, immigrants, medicaid
- Document type
- Issue/Policy Brief
- Language
- English
- URL
- https://immigrationstrategies.issuelab.org/resource/immigration-and-the-welfare-state-immigrant-and-native-use-rates-and-benefit-levels-for-means-tested-welfare-and-entitlement-programs.html
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