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| Record 47,791,996 in December on Food Stamps |
| 2013-03-11 |
| On Friday, the United States Department of Agriculture quietly released new statistics related to the food stamps program, officially known as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The numbers reveal, in 2012, the food stamps program was the biggest it's ever been, with an average of 46,609,072 people on the program every month of last year. 47,791,996 people were on the program in the month of December 2012. The federal government also says that in a given month in 2012, the number of households on food stamps was 22,329,713. The state with the highest average number of participants per month in 2012 was Texas, with an astonishing 4,038,440 folks drawing from the program. The second highest is California, with 3,964,221, and then Florida, at 3,353,064. Washington, D.C., with an estimated population of 617,996, had an average of 141,147 participants. Meaning, roughly 23 percent of folks living in D.C. are on food stamps, according to the numbers provided by the federal government. The participation rate in Texas, which has an estimated population of 26,059,203, 15.5 percent. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #8 bigjim this should answer your question. When you run a revolving door between Wall Street, the Fed, and Treasury, you get people who use the US Currency for their own kind. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-03-11 20:38 |
| #7 And with the DOW at 14,447? I thought we had entered a new Gilded Age? Seems to be something amiss here. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2013-03-11 19:20 |
| #6 Give the lazy foks MRE's [2 per day]. Good enough for sojurs, plenty good enough for these vermin. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-11 17:07 |
| #5 Rambler, the wormtongue agents of the Official State Party Media will wait till a Trunk is in the White House to do that. Standard Operating Procedure - Hunger, Homelessness, Unemployment only appear then. And of course, they'll never show pictures of what the Food Stamp recipients spent their allocations on particularly if shows non-basic food (rice/wheat/fruit/veges vs Little Debbies). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-03-11 17:05 |
| #4 Staggering. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2013-03-11 13:53 |
| #3 The problem is it you try to cut the number, the MSM will trot out examples of people starving to death because the couldn't get food stamps. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-03-11 13:27 |
| #2 This will not end well. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-11 13:09 |
| #1 FORWARD to the Detriotification of America!! |
| Posted by: airandee 2013-03-11 13:04 |