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Did you know that the USDA has food stamp recruiters?
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Many may be aware of The State Department's advertising of food stamps in Mexico (link: [link to washingtonexaminer.com] ), but how many of you knew that the USDA employs `food stamp' recruiters in the U.S.
The recruiters even have quotas! Below is a snippet of a WashingtoncomPost article that tells the story of one recruiter in Florida.
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In fact, it is Nerios’s job to enroll at least 150 seniors for food stamps each month, a quota she usually exceeds.
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Nerios prefers to think of her job in more simple terms: “Help is available,” she tells hundreds of seniors each week. “You deserve it. So, yes or no?”
In Florida and everywhere else, the answer in 2013 is almost always yes. A record 47 million Americans now rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, available for people with annual incomes below about $15,000. The program grew during the economic collapse because 10 million more Americans dropped into poverty. It has continued to expand four years into the recovery because state governments and their partner organizations have become active promoters, creating official “SNAP outreach plans” and hiring hundreds of recruiters like Nerios.
Read more: [link to www.washingtonpost.com]
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