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If you've gotten the "Death Spiral" email that's apparently been arriving in many inboxes, here's the verdict from two major, nonpartisan fact checkers:
It is NOT true, as the email claims, that in 11 states there are more people on welfare than there are working.
The debunkers: both PolitiFact.com and FactCheck.org.
First, some background:
— Baldwin included people who are working, for state and local governments, in his "takers" column. He also put government pensioners, who can certainly make the case that they worked for their earnings, in the takers column.
— The only people Baldwin counted as being on welfare are Medicaid recipients.