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Over a million Americans officially became poor in two months
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1507912:MV8yMDgwMTM2XzM1MDI3OTc3X0U0QUMyNjk2] [quote:Anonymous Coward 29635112:MV8yMDgwMTM2XzM1MDI2MDM1X0Q5QTNERTU0] [quote:Jervis and V-Honey:MV8yMDgwMTM2XzM1MDI1ODgxXzIxOUMzREQw] Stupid question... But what is SNAP? Is that the real name of food stamps? Or is it another program? Please educate me. [/quote] Supplemental nutrition assistance program... the NEW and Improved version of FOODSTAMPS!. it comes on a debit card that gets recharged monthly. I make roughly 20K a year.... i own my home, own all of my vehicles and don't ask anyone for a fucking thing. i hunt my meat and grow a garden. Fuck these useless eaters. I had a spinal cord injury in 1987.. i am not fuckin whining, crying poormouth. I work as much as i can and have real skills that I supplement with. Shut that shit off all of it. fuckin parasites will figure out how to eat when they have to. bring the pain, POS lib voters.. let em starve. I for one am tired of supporting generational fucking sloth and entitlement mentality. [/quote] I don't get them either, I tried to grow a garden this year, it burn up nothing I could do to save it. I can't hunt. I don't begrudge anyone food that really need it and there are some very needy families now because of the economy. Not everyone live where they can grow a garden or hunt! I don't like people who just use the system just because they can. I think I'll ask President Obama for a grant, so I can help people like he did. I really think I could do so, with as little as 10 million. [/quote]
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The number of Americans enrolled in the government’s food stamp program has risen to surpass the previous month’s record. With 607,544 new Americans becoming eligible for food stamps in September, the total has reached yet another all-time record.
The monthly increase in those enrolled in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was the highest since May 2011 and topped off numbers that were already dire. In August 421 thousand more Americans became eligible for food stamps and together with September's numbers more than a million Americans officially became poor. In total, there were more than three times as many new food stamp recipients than new jobs.
The increase in food stamp eligible Americans came at a time when a campaigning Obama administration proudly reiterated the Bureau of Labor Statistics' report that private companies hired 201,000 new workers in August and the service sector added 185,000 workers.
But at an average cost of $134.29 per month per food stamp recipient, the federal government is increasingly spending more to tackle poverty.
“It is unclear just which atmospheric phenomenon will get the blame for this unprecedented surge in poverty, which comes at a time when the pre-election economic data euphoria was adamant that the US economy was on an escape velocity to utopia,” Tyler Durden wrote for Zero Hedge.
Rising from 47.1 million food stamp-eligible Americans in August to 47.7 million in September, it is possible that the US the number of recipients will reach 50 million before the end of the year.
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