It's because the overwhelming number of poor in America are White.my wife works for dpss and the overwhelming number of "food" stamp recipients are white...
There's 43 million Americans collecting SNAP benefits. Almost half of them are either black, Hispanic, some other minority. So that means that approx. 25 million white Americans are collecting SNAP benefits. That's about 10% of the white population. However, blacks make up only 13% of the population yet they collect 28% of the total benefits. There are 39 million blacks in America but 12 million of them are receiving food stamps, and if they were in the program like whites only 3.9 million of them would be in the program.
Seems to me that blacks are getting more than their share.