Food stamp use hit record 40.8 Million

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Bloomberg News / August 5, 2010
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.

Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website.

Participation has set records for 18 straight months.

Unemployment in July may have reached 9.6 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts in advance of the Aug. 6 release of last month’s rate. Unemployment was 9.5 percent in June, near levels last seen in 1983.

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[Annie]

Already posted:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/curre...e-good-times-roll-during-stimulus-summer.html

 

[Douger]

When it hits 80 - 100 million they'll have you right where they want you.
Slaves.