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Food stamp users increased 50% from 2008 to now.
    #22164526 - 08/30/15 12:06 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Is the economy actually improving as they keep trying to tell us? Then why so many are underemployed and so many more are on food stamps? Sounds like the great recession never ended.

http://dailysignal.com/2015/08/30/in-2008-fewer-than-30-million-used-food-stamps-now-46-million-do/

In 2008, Fewer Than 30 Million Used Food Stamps. Now 46 Million Do.
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Food stamps is one of the largest means-tested welfare programs. COMMENTARY BY

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Good news: The number of Americans using food stamps in 2014 declined slightly from the previous year. So why does the 2015 Index of Culture and Opportunity say this indicator is headed in the “wrong direction”?

There are a couple of reasons. For one, the food stamp program (officially known now as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is still much larger today than it was a decade ago—or, indeed, just a few years ago. In 2008, it was below 30 million. By 2013, it had hit 47.6 million.

One out of every seven Americans received SNAP benefits in 2014, and the program cost $74.1 billion, making it one of the largest means-tested welfare program.

You’d think the improving jobs situation would translate to the number of SNAP beneficiaries declining by a much larger margin. But that hasn’t been the case.

Another reason for saying that food stamp numbers aren’t really going in the right direction? Look at how the SNAP demographic has changed.

Before the 2008 recession, 55 percent of SNAP households consisted of children and the elderly. Now, however, a slight majority of recipients are non-elderly, able-bodied adults. There has also been an uptick in the number of working-age, able-bodied adults on SNAP who are not working.


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Re: Food stamp users increased 50% from 2008 to now. [Re: Stonehenge]
    #22164583 - 08/30/15 12:20 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

It's unclear of how much of the increase is due to increased economic need and how much is due to rising availability.


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Re: Food stamp users increased 50% from 2008 to now. [Re: BoldAsLove]
    #22164650 - 08/30/15 12:38 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Sounds to me like more evidence of obumble's incompetence which the media is always trying to cover up. If things are doing so great, why is this happening? In china they probably do the same thing, telling all the peasants they are doing so much better now.


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Re: Food stamp users increased 50% from 2008 to now. [Re: Stonehenge]
    #22164915 - 08/30/15 01:47 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

I didn't say things were going great.


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Re: Food stamp users increased 50% from 2008 to now. [Re: Stonehenge]
    #22165080 - 08/30/15 02:45 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Stonehenge said:
Is the economy actually improving as they keep trying to tell us? Then why so many are underemployed and so many more are on food stamps? Sounds like the great recession never ended.

http://dailysignal.com/2015/08/30/in-2008-fewer-than-30-million-used-food-stamps-now-46-million-do/

In 2008, Fewer Than 30 Million Used Food Stamps. Now 46 Million Do.
Ed Feulner / @EdFeulner / August 30, 2015 / 5 comments 285 31

Food stamps is one of the largest means-tested welfare programs. COMMENTARY BY

Ed Feulner


Good news: The number of Americans using food stamps in 2014 declined slightly from the previous year. So why does the 2015 Index of Culture and Opportunity say this indicator is headed in the “wrong direction”?

There are a couple of reasons. For one, the food stamp program (officially known now as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is still much larger today than it was a decade ago—or, indeed, just a few years ago. In 2008, it was below 30 million. By 2013, it had hit 47.6 million.

One out of every seven Americans received SNAP benefits in 2014, and the program cost $74.1 billion, making it one of the largest means-tested welfare program.

You’d think the improving jobs situation would translate to the number of SNAP beneficiaries declining by a much larger margin. But that hasn’t been the case.

Another reason for saying that food stamp numbers aren’t really going in the right direction? Look at how the SNAP demographic has changed.

Before the 2008 recession, 55 percent of SNAP households consisted of children and the elderly. Now, however, a slight majority of recipients are non-elderly, able-bodied adults. There has also been an uptick in the number of working-age, able-bodied adults on SNAP who are not working.




They only had just cut the hours of each employees in order to give the rest of the hours to someone else; and so the employees make less and they qualify for food stamps now. Eventhough that there isn't any improvement, but it look good on their report card. But the economy has improve in the food industries department, because of everyone has stamps to burn to buy patented foods.


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