Ratio of social benefits received to taxes paid in the U.S., by immigrant status 2008
This graph shows the ratio of benefits received from public social services, to the amount of taxes paid for different immigrant/native groups in the United States as of 2008. White natives as a group received the highest amount of benefits in comparison to how much tax they paid in 2008. By comparison Latin-American immigrants typically received half the amount of benefits as they paid in taxes.