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Food Stamp Participation Jumped by Over 600K in September; Last Pre-Election Number Revised Up
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December 07, 2012
By: Tom Blumer
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its latest report on food stamp program participation through September today. I received the email alerting me to the release at 5:17 p.m., so it seems reasonable to believe that USDA and the Barack Obama administration wanted the new data to get as little attention as possible (as will be seen later, its currently getting none). If so, they have two probable reasons for wishing to minimize its impact.
The first and more obvious of the two is that the food stamp rolls increased by over 607,000 in September to 47.71 million, yet another all-time record. Thats awful enough, but heres the real kicker: the participation figure for July, the last month of data available before Election Day, was revised up by over 150,000, changing that months reported increase from 11,600 to just under 166,000. As will be seen after the jump, no other months data was revised except August, where the changes were infinitesimal.
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