Food Stamp Beneficiaries Exceed 45 Million for 53 Straight Months

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Food Stamp Beneficiaries Exceed 45 Million for 53 Straight Months


Published: December 22, 2015
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Source: Free Beacon (http://freebeacon.com/issues/food-stamp-beneficiaries-exceed-45-million-for-53-straight-months/)




Expert says program should encourage participants to work
There were 45,415,445 beneficiaries of the food stamp program in September 2015, the latest month for which data is available. The number declined by 48,988 from August to September.
The USDA has been tracking data on participation in the program since fiscal year 1969, at which time average participation stood at about 2,800,000. This means that since then, participation in the program has increased by roughly 16-fold.

Maura Corrigan, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, says that despite improvements in the economy, the program remains large and too few adults who benefit from the program are working.
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[ghost]

Add 21 million federal employees and the tens of millions on social Security and it most be 40%% of the population depending on the fed to print the paper every month.

And most of the people on Social Security are just getting back a little of what they have paid in.

[cheka.]

that number, 45 mill

does the ghetto queen with 5 chirren count as 6, or 1?