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Why Are So Many Americans Still on Food Stamps?

By SharperIron on Fri, 10/17/14
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“[T]he number of SNAP recipients has only declined by 2.7 percent and started increasing again in the months of April and June 2014.”

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Bert Perry

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Fri, 10/17/14

If you look at what’s happening with jobs—job growth barely keeping up with population growth, and many of those jobs being part-time—it’s no surprise that people are not leaving SNAP/Food Stamps. They’re simply still eligible and have been, statistically speaking, since 2008. Here’s a link to some charts that the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee put together. It’s ugly.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/10/the-obama-economy-in-elev…

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