Not necessarily. States like Iowa may have very low percentages of people on unemployment overall. If most of the people on welfare nationally come from a few states with a high black population (say, New York, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, California, Michigan), you could get to a much higher percentage by doing the tripling calculation in each state rather than just tripling nationally.
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