14% of Americans receive food stamps
What strikes me as a Utah resident is that nearly 10% of Utah’s 2.8 million residents are on food stamps (and federally mandated cuts are coming) And yet Utah has one of the lowest food stamp usage rates in the…
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"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
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Zero Hedge gets snarky. Headline of the Day
Time to celebrate the recovery: food stamp usage hits fresh record. The closely-watched Chicago PMI index just cratered and the Case-Shiller index shows housing is in a double dip. But don’t you worry, Uncle Ben Bernanke is still funneling as…
Vampire Squid now has competition for Scummiest Bankster
Move over Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan is now even more bottom-dwelling than you are. JP Morgan makes big bucks from food stamp growth, then hires workers in India with our tax dollars They are busily expanding into other related growth…
1 in 8 Americans and nearly 1 in 4 children now receive food stamps
New York Times interactive map. Click to use. California only enrolls about half of those eligible, a proportion *less* than any other state. The report breaks the numbers down by county, with several having more than 40% of the total…
Food Stamps
A story in yesterday’s New York Times about the rising use of food stamps paints a pretty grim picture of where we are as a nation. For instance, the program, now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in…