"People who don't finish college are more likely to receive food stamps than are
those who go to graduate school. The rolls of people on public assistance are
dominated by people with less education. Nevertheless, the percentage of
graduate-degree holders who receive food stamps or some other aid more than
doubled between 2007 and 2010.
During that three-year period, the number of people with master's degrees who
received food stamps and other aid climbed from 101,682 to 293,029, and the
number of people with Ph.D.'s who received assistance rose from 9,776 to 33,655,
according to tabulations of microdata done by Austin Nichols, a senior researcher
with the Urban Institute. He drew on figures from the 2008 and 2011 Current
Population Surveys done by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of
Labor."
See:
https://chronicle.com/article/From-G...ool-to/131795/