45.8 Million Americans on Food Stamps Now
August 4, 2011: 5:03 PM ET
Food stamp use hit an all-time high in May.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Nearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in May, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
The number of Americans using the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) -- more commonly referred to as food stamps -- shot to an all-time high of 45.8 million in May, the USDA reported. That's up 12% from a year ago, and 34% higher than two years ago.
The program provides monthly benefits to low-income individuals and families, which they can use at stores that accept SNAP benefits.
To qualify for food stamps, an individual's income can't exceed $1,174 a month or $14,088 a year -- an amount that is 130% of the national poverty level.
The average food stamp benefit was $133.80 per person and $283.65 per household in May.
The highest concentration of food stamp users were in California, Florida, New York and Texas -- where more than 3 million residents in each state received food stamps in May.
Full Article Here> http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/04/pf/food_stamps_record_high/
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Permalink Reply by Cryptocurrency on
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to much use of the word food... now i'm hungry. anyone got any FOODSTAMPS!
Lol
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Permalink Reply by Vincent L. Guarisco on
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That's a lot of hungry people! Can you imagine what would happen if the food stamp program stopped tomorrow? Well, yes ... more people would get jobs if they're lucky enough to find one, but crime would certainly go through the roof. Nothing motivates a criminal more than a hungry stomach, unless of course, you're a white criminal scumbag.
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Hey don't be dissin' white people ese.
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Lol ... I meant to say white collar criminal.
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Permalink Reply by Burbia on
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The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The More Money JP Morgan Makes
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-more-americans-that...
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well, yeah, bush is a poster boy for corporate welfare, don't hear much about that crap though...
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Permalink Reply by Maria De Wind on
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That is more than the total population of Ukraine
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Ukraine45,706,126 May 1, 2011 0.66% Official UKRSTAT estimate 30 
Tanzania43,187,823 2010 0.62% Official estimate 31 
Argentina40,091,359 October 27, 2010 0.58% Provisional census results 32 
Kenya38,610,097 August 24–25, 2009 0.56% Official census results 33 
Poland38,186,860 2010 0.55% Official estimate 34 
Algeria36,300,000 January 1, 2011 0.52% Official estimate 35 
Canada34,539,000 August 5, 2011 0.5% Official Canadian Population clock 36 
Morocco32,221,000 August 5, 2011 0.46% Official Moroccan Population clock 37 
Uganda31,800,000 2010 0.46% Official estimate 38 
Iraq31,672,000 2010 0.45% UN estimate for 2010 39 
Afghanistan31,412,000 2010 0.42% UN estimate for 2010 40 
Sudann1630,894,000 2008 0.45% 2008 census results 41 
Peru29,461,933 June 30, 2010 0.42% Official INEI estimate (in Spanish) 42 
Venezuela29,316,000 August 5, 2011 0.42% Official Venezuelan Population clock 43 
Nepal28,584,975 2011 0.41% Official estimate 44 
Malaysia27,565,821 2010 0.4% The 2010 Population and Housing Census (Census 2010) 45 
Uzbekistan27,445,000 2010 0.4% UN estimate for 2010 46 
Saudi Arabia27,136,977 2010 0.39% Official Saudi estimate 47 
North Korea24,346,000 2010 0.35% UN estimate for 2010 48 
Ghana24,233,431 September 26, 2010 0.35% Provisional 2010 census results 49 
Syria23,695,000 2010 0.34% Civil affairs records(2010) 50 
China, Republic of (Taiwan)n423,174,528 May 31, 2011 0.33% Official National Statistics Taiwan estimate 51 
Australian522,670,282 August 5, 2011 0.33% Australian Official Population Clock 52 
Yemen22,492,035 2009 0.32% Official estimate 53 
Mozambique22,416,881 2010 0.32% Official estimate 54 
Romania21,413,815 January 1, 2011 0.31% Eurostat estimate 55 
Madagascar20,714,000 2010 0.29% UN estimate for 2010 56 
Sri Lanka20,669,000 2010 0.29% UN estimate for 2010 57 
Côte d'Ivoire19,738,000 2010 0.31% UN estimate for 2010 58 
Cameroon19,406,100 January 1, 2010 0.28% Official estimate 59 
Angola19,082,000 2010 0.27% UN estimate for 2010 60 
Chile17,263,500 August 5, 2011 0.25% Official INE projection (page 36) 61 
Netherlands16,687,000 August 5, 2011 0.241% Official Netherlands population clock 62 
Kazakhstan16,518,000 May 1, 2011 0.24% National Statistics Agency estimate 63 
Burkina Faso15,730,977 July 1, 2010 0.23% Official estimate 64 
Niger15,730,754 2011 0.23% Official estimate 65 
Malawi14,901,000 2010 0.23% UN estimate for 2010 66 
Mali14,517,176 April 1, 2009 0.21% Preliminary 2009 census result 67 
Guatemala14,361,666 2010 0.21% Official estimate 68 
Ecuador14,306,876 November 28, 2010 0.21% Preliminary 2010 Ecuadorian census result 69 
Cambodia13,395,682 March 3, 2008 0.19% Cambodian 2008 Census 70 
Zambia13,046,508 October 16, 2010 0.19% 2010 Zambia Census result 71 
Zimbabwe12,571,000 2010 0.18% UN estimate for 2010 72 
Senegal12,434,000 2010 0.19% UN estimate for 2010 73 
Cuba11,241,161 December 31, 2010 0.16% Official estimate 74 
Chad11,227,000 2010 0.17% UN estimate for 2010 75 
Belgium10,918,405 January 1, 2011 0.16% Eurostat estimate 76 
Greece10,787,690 June 1, 2011 0.16% 2011 census estimate 77 
Portugal10,636,979 January 1, 2011 0.15% Eurostat estimate 78 
Tunisia10,549,100 July 1, 2010 0.15% National Statistics Institute of Tunisia 79 
Czech Republic10,535,811 March 31, 2011 0.15% Official estimate 80 
Bolivia10,426,154 2010 0.15% Official estimate 81 
Rwanda10,412,820 2010 0.15% Official estimate 82 
Haiti10,085,214 2010 0.15% Official estimate 83 
Hungary9,986,000 January 1, 2011 0.14% Official estimate 84 
Guinea9,982,000 2010 0.15% UN estimate for 2010 85 
Belarus9,469,000 June 1, 2011 0.14% National Statistical Committee 86 
Sweden9,440,588 May 31, 2011 0.14% Statistics Sweden 87 
Dominican Republic9,378,818 December 1, 2010 0.14% Preliminary census result 88 
Somalian79,331,000 2010 0.13% UN estimate for 2010 89 
Azerbaijan9,165,000 July 1, 2011 0.13% State Statistical Committee of Azerbaijan 90 
Benin8,778,646 2010 0.13% Official estimate 91 
Austria8,404,252 January 1, 2011 0.12% [3] 92 
Burundi8,383,000 2010 0.12% UN estimate for 2010 93 
United Arab Emirates8,264,070 Mid-2010 0.119% Official estimate 94 
South Sudann168,260,490 2008 0.12% 2008 census results 95 
Honduras8,215,313 2011 0.12% Official estimate 96 
Switzerland7,866,500 December 31, 2010 0.11% Official Switzerland Statistics estimate 97 
Israeln87,751,000 May, 2011 0.11% Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics
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Permalink Reply by Tara on
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Talk about the scum of the earth profiting off of a peoples demise! Anyway for these crook bankers to make a buck, they will do whatever it takes which includes, lieing, cheating, stealing and sometimes killing to get their greedy hands into someone elses pockets, even when the pockets are almost completly empty. It makes me sick.
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