Racial and Ethnic Divisions Limit Support for Government Spending Programs
An April 29, 2007 New York Times article by financial and economic reporter Eduardo Porter, cited the General Social Survey as a source of information. The article puts forward the opinions of several social science researchers, including Erzo F.P. Luttmer, associate professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, who posited in a 2001 study that the percentage of people who say they support welfare spending decreases as the share of local recipients from their own racial group falls.