Find Out How Many People Around You Receive Food Stamps

[mamboni]

mamboni comments: My county had very few recipients, ~5%. But, the number has TRIPLED since 2000!



How Many People Around You Receive Food Stamps?


Slate’s interactive tool for finding local SNAP data.

By Chris Kirk



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Sales associate Leo De La Cruz restocks fresh fruit during the Grand Opening of the new Walmart Neighborhood Market in Panorama City, California, a working class area about 13 miles (20km) northwest of Los Angeles, on September 28, 2012.Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images




Since the turn of the millennium, participation in the food stamp program, known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, has more than doubled to 15 percent of all U.S. residents in January. In some parts of the country, as few as 1 in 20 people receive food stamps. In others, the figure is more than 1 in 3. Low-income households that meet SNAP eligibility requirements receive a payment card that can only be used to buy government-approved essential foods.



Under President Obama’s watch, the value of the benefits distributed by the program each year has more than doubled as more people have fallen below the poverty line and more households have joined the program. Obama has expanded eligibility under the theory that it helps the economy, which led Newt Gingrich to dub him the “food stamp president” early in the 2012 election season. Due to the high unemployment rate, the Obama administration has also waived a 1996 job requirement—a rule that made finding a job or enrolling in job training a prerequisite for receiving SNAP benefits—for 46 states. Republican leaders are trying to reinstate the requirement to counteract the program’s escalating cost.



To find out how many people participate in the program in your area and how that number has changed since 2000, enter your ZIP code, city, or county and state in the widget below.




How many people around me receive food stamps?

Go here to find out(scroll down): http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...snap_data.html

[Ponce]

Uffffffffffffffff....19, 975 or 25% of those living here in my county.....better buy more ammo.

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[midnight rambler]

My county had very few recipients, ~5%. But, the number has TRIPLED since 2000!

A local metromess county here went from 3% in 2000 to 13%. Dallas county went from 3% to 16%. Philadelphia is 27%. Detroit is 28%. Surprisingly Gary, Ind. is 18% while Shreveport, La. is 21% (large Negro population in Shreveport).

[woodman]

28% in my county. $1581 Per person per year.

[Ponce]

Woodman? you also better buy more ammo......and a good long machete...heads will roll.

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[mick silver]

dam how long can this last

[Neuro]

28% in my county. $1581 Per person per year.

Same as Detroit... Did you think it was that bad?

[mamboni]

28% in my county. $1581 Per person per year.

Aren't you in a rural area?

[woodman]

Aren't you in a rural area?

Yes. 3 traffic lights in Lake County and all 3 are blinkers. Very depressed around here. No industry at all besides logging. A few farms and that's it. Most of the people around here collect SS income. Too stupid to work, or something. I call it an oak desert. Sandy soil and lots of woods. Nice rolling hills in some parts.

[willie pete]

21% county wide here, almost 700k people