Use of public transfer programs and private aid by farm workers

Legal status affects the use of public welfare and insurance and private as sistance programs by families of farm workers. Families of unauthorized imm igrants are more likely to use public medical assistance and less likely to use other public transfer programs than authorized immigrants and citizens . Unauthorized immigrants with young children in the United States are slig htly more likely to use welfare, and welfare recipients are slightly more l ikely to have young children here.