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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Nearly 1 in 6 Americans Receives Food Stamps
Food-stamp use rose 2.8% in the U.S. in April from a year earlier, with more
than 15% of the U.S. population receiving benefits.
One of the federal government’s biggest social welfare programs, which
expanded when the economy convulsed, isn’t shrinking back alongside the
recovery.
Food stamp rolls increased on a year-over-year basis, but were 0.4% lower
from the prior month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported. Though
annual growth continues, the pace has slowed since the depths of the
recession.
The number of recipients in the food stamp program, formally known as the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), is at 47.5 million, or
nearly one in six Americans.
Illinois and Wyoming registered double-digit year-over-year jump in use,
while Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire,
North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Utah all posted annual drops.
Mississippi was the state with the largest share of its population relying
on food stamps — 22% — though Washington, DC was a bit higher overall at
23%. One in five residents in Oregon, New Mexico, Louisiana, Tennessee,
Georgia and Kentucky also were food-stamp recipients. Wyoming had the
smallest share of its population on food stamps — 7%. |
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