No, I just have first-hand experience.

>Thank you for admitting that you have not, in fact, studied the subject, and were speaking off-the-cuff, dispensing armchair science.
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>>Basically, I appealed to your commonsense. Btw, I urged you to study urban statistics. Hopefully, you will not deny that such statistics exist, do you? You may also make a brief trip to one of the hospitals in the nearby urban area. Medicaid accounts for about 90% of all treated cases in such areas.
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>>>Do you have a reference I could read on whether immigrant use of social services is different than US native citizens usage, for comparable SES? I would love to read it. If you can remember where you read it, I would be glad to research it further.
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>>>In fact, I doubt that such a reference exists. And I am willing to be proven wrong. If you do not have such a reference, and have not read specifically on a comparison which balances SES, I would appreciate knowing that also: otherwise I'll be left wondering whether such a reference actually exists.
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>>>thanks,
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>>>Hank
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>>>>I didn't talk about your experience. My assertions were about real picture. If you don't believe it then you could study social statistics for urban areas, where most immigrants arrive. It might happen that you will notice that number of welfare program recipients is substantially higher in those areas.
>>>>Again, my major point was different, and for some reasons you ignored it. It is undeniable, imho, that immigrants of the past didn't receive government-sponsored social support at the point of arrival, and, imho again, this support is very essential factor driven immigration numbers in our times. It means that equating past immigrant history with today's realities is not correct both factually and ethically.
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