The Rise Of Food Stamp Use In America Steven Perlberg

 

Earlier today, the House passed the Farm Bill without any funding provision for food stamps.

For some context, here's a chart tweeted on Monday by Bloomberg Briefs' Economist Michael McDonough.

The cost of the program — which spiked during the recession — currently accounts for nearly 14% of grocery store sales, with 47.8 million Americans receiving the subsidy.

One explanation for the spike in people on food stamps is higher participation rates. Ten years ago, far fewer people who qualified for food stamps actually got them.

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I tried eating food stamp once...it tastes like a paper...

 
Pava:
I tried eating food stamp once...it tastes like a paper...

You forgot one rule: everything tastes better with ketchup.

 

...if that was true they wouldn't use whipped cream in adult movies...

MaksymGra:
You forgot one rule: everything tastes better with ketchup.
 

Those percentages and numbers are horrible. Something is really wrong

 

there is lots of fraud...those real #'s must be much lower...like 50% lower...

mladen:
Those percentages and numbers are horrible. Something is really wrong
 
Pava:
there is lots of fraud...those real #'s must be much lower...like 50% lower...

You mean people are misusing it?

 

yep...everyone over here knows someone who has plenty of money and using food stamps...

mladen:
You mean people are misusing it?
 
Pava:
yep...everyone over here knows someone who has plenty of money and using food stamps...

Unfortunately it seems to be a destiny of all basically good ideas : the idea of helping those that need help is twisted into something else, and those that really need help will be the ones that will suffer in the end. Sad

 

no good deed will go unpunished:)

mladen:
Unfortunately it seems to be a destiny of all basically good ideas : the idea of helping those that need help is twisted into something else, and those that really need help will be the ones that will suffer in the end. Sad
 
Pava:
no good deed will go unpunished:)

Nothing is more true than that statement ...