Thread: One in Four Children on Food Stamps, One in Eight Overall; W

Thursday, December 10, 2009

One in Four Children on Food Stamps, One in Eight Overall; Weekly Unemployment Claims Tick Up

Every month the number on food stamps increases. Food stamp usage is now up to a record 36 million. Please consider Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29 ... .html?_r=1

With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.

While the numbers have soared during the recession, the path was cleared in better times when the Bush administration led a campaign to erase the program’s stigma, calling food stamps “nutritional aidâ€