Democrats rejoice! Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May

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Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May - The Boston Globe

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.

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Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website.

Participation has set records for 18 straight months.

Unemployment in July may have reached 9.6 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts in advance of the Aug. 6 release of last month’s rate. Unemployment was 9.5 percent in June, near levels last seen in 1983.

An average of 40.5 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.

The figure is projected to rise to 43.3 million in 2011
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Imagine the joy democrats would experience if 30% of the population were on food stamps.
 
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A guy I work with was telling me about how he and his wife overheard two women talking about how much money they usually make by selling their food stamps. They were at the OB clinic waiting for an appointment. Evidently both these women were unmarried with multiple children and both pregnant again. That kind of thing burns my ass. If I remember correctly he said one of the women said she sold a months worth of food stamps for 150 bucks and the other claimed she should have gotten more.
 
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