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.
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There’s a hidush here?
Eligibility for Food Stamps is a function of income, and incomes are falling.
And what nobody will tell us but any person can look up the facts as follows.
The Obama administration was the first administration in about 35 years to finally change the income level because inlfation and many other factors changed over 35 years.(obviously)
Obama had the rules of income go higher but cut back every single person an average of 250.00 per month on a family of 6 inlcusing parents.
So basically nothing changed but actually got worse.
The Obama administration has a tendancy to keep on telling the American people things are better but behind the scenes the language of the law and small print is what matters.
Obama is a phony nad things are only getting worse for everyone. Anyone who voted for him is a nutcase!