Food stamp enrollment skyrockets as unemployment rate declines

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Food stamp enrollment skyrockets as unemployment rate declines
The Daily Caller ^ | 11/20/12 | Caroline May

Food stamp enrollment up as unemployment rate declines | The Daily Caller

A new chart produced by Republicans staffers on the Senate Budget Committee shows food stamp enrollment continuing to increase even as the unemployment rate goes down.

From October 2009 to October 2012 the unemployment rate has declined from 10.2 percent to 7.9 percent. In that same time frame, nearly ten million new recipients have been added to the food stamp rolls, according to government data analyzed by the Republican committee staff.

“Spending on the food stamp program has increased every single year since 2000, and a record number of individuals now receive the benefit. For instance, food stamp enrollment has climbed by nearly 10 million individuals since October 2009 — but the unemployment rate declined 2 percentage points from its peak level over that time,” the Republican Budget Committee staff explained in a statement.

 

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Time to cut, cut and cut some more!

 

[francoHFW]

Thanks for the outsourcing of so many good jobs...Now turning around with improvements in education and training, going after the rich sending profits overseas etc etc- all stuff Pubs had no problem with. Selfish idiot megarich and their silly dupes...

 

[ScienceRocks]

The unions are destroying our educational system franco. Can't you understand this?

 

[Freewill]

Thanks for the outsourcing of so many good jobs...Now turning around with improvements in education and training, going after the rich sending profits overseas etc etc- all stuff Pubs had no problem with. Selfish idiot megarich and their silly dupes...

Too bad for you it was Clinton that started the outsourcing with his "free" trade agreements. Just like liberals to not accept reality. It was predicted then by Perot and EXACTLY what he said would happen happened. You have lying Bill to blame but seriously doubt you will.

 

[Freewill]

The Obama legacy. And don't blame Bush look at the chart closely and see when the rate started to drop. The results of Obama's fiscal policies were predicted and the results have vindicated those predictions.