families and individuals pay taxes to the government and receive
back a wide variety of services and benefits. When the benefits
and services received by one group exceed the taxes paid, a
distributional deficit occurs, and other groups must pay for the
services and benefits of the group in deficit. Each year,
government is involved in a large-scale transfer of resources
between different social groups. provides a fiscal distribution
analysis of households headed by immigrants without a high
school diploma. The report refers to these households as "low-
skill immigrant households." In fiscal year (FY) 2004 there were
around 4.5 million low-skill immigrant households in the United
States, containing 15.9 million persons, roughly 5 percent of
the U.S. population. About 60 percent of these low-skill
immigrant households were headed by legal immigrants and 40
percent by illegal immigrants measures the total benefits and
services received by these "low-skill immigrant households"
compared to the total taxes paid. T