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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1058980" data-attributes="member: 38206"><p><strong>More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before</strong></p><p><strong>By Elizabeth Flock | November 20, 2012 </strong></p><p><strong>More Americans will use food stamps to buy their Thanksgiving dinner this year than ever before, according</strong></p><p> <strong>to a new report from the nonprofit government watchdog group The Sunlight Foundation. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong>According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, average participation in the Supplemental Nutrition</strong></strong></p><p> <strong><strong>Assistance Program, or food stamp program, has increased 70 percent since 2007.</strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #800000"></span></span></strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #800000">In fact it has doubled </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/a55hqeg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800000">since the work requirement was removed by Obama via his stimulus bill</span></a><span style="color: #800000">, four years ago.</span></span></strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong></strong></strong></p><p> <strong><strong>And economists have warned that usage of food stamps won’t go down until unemployment improves</strong>.</strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800000"><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800000"><span style="font-size: 9px">But unemployment has improved according to the administration. But food stamp enrollment keeps going up at an even faster rate.</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800000"><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800000"><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></span><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>This Thanksgiving, 42.2 million Americans will be on food stamps, according to the</strong></span></span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Economic Policy Institute.</strong></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong></strong></span></span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>This is roughly the size of the populations of California and Connecticut combined</strong>.</span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/11/20/more-americans-will-use-food-stamps-for-thanksgiving-this-year-than-ever-before" target="_blank">More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)</a></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="texan, post: 1058980, member: 38206"] [B]More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before By Elizabeth Flock | November 20, 2012 More Americans will use food stamps to buy their Thanksgiving dinner this year than ever before, according to a new report from the nonprofit government watchdog group The Sunlight Foundation. [B]According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, average participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamp program, has increased 70 percent since 2007. [SIZE=1][COLOR=#800000] In fact it has doubled [/COLOR][URL="http://tinyurl.com/a55hqeg"][COLOR=#800000]since the work requirement was removed by Obama via his stimulus bill[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#800000], four years ago.[/COLOR][/SIZE] And economists have warned that usage of food stamps won’t go down until unemployment improves[/B]. [COLOR=#800000][SIZE=1] But unemployment has improved according to the administration. But food stamp enrollment keeps going up at an even faster rate. [SIZE=3][/SIZE][/SIZE][/COLOR][COLOR=#000080][SIZE=1][SIZE=3][B]This Thanksgiving, 42.2 million Americans will be on food stamps, according to the Economic Policy Institute. This is roughly the size of the populations of California and Connecticut combined[/B]. [url=http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/11/20/more-americans-will-use-food-stamps-for-thanksgiving-this-year-than-ever-before]More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)[/url] [/SIZE][/SIZE][/COLOR][SIZE=3] [/SIZE] [/B] [/QUOTE]
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