Mississippi sent $98m in welfare money to NFL players and pro wrestlers instead of the poor nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/…
At the same time, as I found in 2016, the state rejects nearly all poor people who apply for welfare archive.thinkprogress.org/mississippi-re…
But Mississippi is just an egregious example. States are incentivized to reduce welfare spending on the poor because they can then use the money for other things.
And they aren’t really required to justify how they use the block grant money, so many spend it on all sorts of things that aren’t aid to the poor.
