Food Stamp Recipients at Record 41.8 Million Americans in July, U.S. Says By Alan Bjerga - Oct 5, 2010 4:46 PM ET
The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 41.8 million in July as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government said.
Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 18 percent from a year earlier and increased 1.4 percent from June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in a statement on its website. Participation has set records for 20 straight months.
Unemployment in September may have reached 9.7 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts in advance of the release of last month’s rate on Oct. 8. Unemployment was 9.6 percent in July, near levels last seen in 1983.
An average of 43.3 million people, more than an eighth of the population, will get food stamps each month in the year that began Oct. 1, according to White House estimates.
...yeah, isn't this wonderful that so many people can't even feed themselves without the government BECAUSE OF SOCIALISTIC 'WAR ON POVERTY' HAS FAILED!
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
How about this statistic. NYS has the second lowest use of food stamps by eligible senior citzens in the country. There is a big push here to get them to take advantage of this entitlement.
If the eligible seniors wanted food stamps they would ask for them, many of them have been brought up to take care of themselves and not depend on government handouts.
Yes that is precisely the problem. They equate food stamps with welfare. There is a huge campaign beginning to get eligible seniors on food stamps. We are trying better education and outreach to help them access that entitlement.
Yes that is precisely the problem. They equate food stamps with welfare. There is a huge campaign beginning to get eligible seniors on food stamps. We are trying better education and outreach to help them access that entitlement.
Who is the proverbial "We?" Got a mouse in your pocket, or are you actually in power somewhere to make these decisions?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
AND THERE IS NO SUCH SECURITY AS ENTITLEMENT......dont use something that you dont really need......honestly.....now they want food stamps to cover freakin' soda....WTH....that's not health....dorks just so the masses can 'feel equal'.........stupid idiots......you cant legislate charity
what happened?....I think I will quit my job and live off of all of you....why freakin' bother any more? honestly......talk about verbal abuse via advertisement by the government....they are doing a GREAT job at stripping folks of their inherent ability and need to survive(which IS their own entitlement).......how embarrassing......I hope the hippies are freakin' happy....I hope they have enough in their bong to share of course they wont.......
We The Living....Ayn Rand
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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