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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Agenda: \'Dependent Upon Government\'

By MICHAEL COOPER Just who are the people dependent upon government that Mitt Romney was talking about in the video surreptitiously recorded at a May fund-raiser? This graphic, from an article in February by Binyamin Appelbaum and Robert Gebeloff, shows that the share of benefits flowing to the least affluent households has declined from 54 percent in 1979 to 36 percent in 2007.

By MICHAEL COOPER

Just who are the people “dependent upon government” that Mitt Romney was talking about in the video surreptitiously recorded at a May fund-raiser? This graphic, from an article in February by Binyamin Appelbaum and Robert Gebeloff, shows that the share of benefits flowing to the least affluent households has declined from 54 percent in 1979 to 36 percent in 2007.