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7 States With the Most People on Food Stamps
Wall Street Cheat Sheet ^ | 2/16/15 | Erika Rawes

Posted on 02/16/2015 12:23:49 PM PST by Kartographer

3. New Mexico

Number of food stamp recipients: 430,622 Percentage of the state’s population on food stamps: 20.65% Total cost of just these benefits alone (That is, how much do just the money on those EBT cards cost the state?): Around $53.12 million Cost of benefits alone per capita in this state: $25.47 per person

(Excerpt) Read more at wallstcheatsheet.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: foodstamps; stateslist
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To: pallis

Pallis, why do you call NM “Espanola?” I am curious ...


41 posted on 02/16/2015 1:07:51 PM PST by Ken522
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To: Kartographer

Like every out random stat used to make a point, the key to all of them is demographics.

Mississippi is often the butt of jokes for the poor education results, and the number on welfare.

What would the stats for NH look like if 50% of their population looked the residents of Harlem?


42 posted on 02/16/2015 1:08:25 PM PST by Beagle8U (NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
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To: Alter Kaker

Oregon has been full on progressive for 20+ years...Dems are sooo proud


43 posted on 02/16/2015 1:09:19 PM PST by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: napscoordinator

Check the demographics.


44 posted on 02/16/2015 1:12:53 PM PST by Beagle8U (NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
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To: Kartographer

You know, I just look at those numbers for D.C., and I just keep thinking, if there were only some way we could HELP those people......maybe sending them some MORE money....../sarc


45 posted on 02/16/2015 1:13:05 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: napscoordinator

Demographics. It all comes down to demographics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_African-American_population


46 posted on 02/16/2015 1:13:07 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: Red Badger

rough estimate of that list shows about 80 MILLION people on food stamps, I guess that 50 million number on the news might be a LIE!


47 posted on 02/16/2015 1:29:08 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Kartographer

The Food Stamp President.


48 posted on 02/16/2015 1:32:35 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: eyeamok

Math is not required in Journalism school........................


49 posted on 02/16/2015 1:33:54 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: napscoordinator

I was born in MS and that state has more Blacks than any other state. The Delta area is the poorest part of the state and they usually vote for dems.


50 posted on 02/16/2015 1:44:10 PM PST by MamaB
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To: Ken522

Espanola is a town in New Mexico.


51 posted on 02/16/2015 1:44:23 PM PST by pallis (I like white people)
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To: MrB; Red Badger

There needs to be another column added to the chart. Number of “non-documented” per population


52 posted on 02/16/2015 1:46:33 PM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: KC_Conspirator

I thing that we need to petition the USDA to place Obama’s picture on food stamps!


53 posted on 02/16/2015 1:46:45 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Baynative

I’m surprised anyone in MN would even know Espanola exists.

Then again, the old love and heartbreak of my life before I met my wife moved to Minneapolis, so who knows?


54 posted on 02/16/2015 1:50:00 PM PST by pallis (I like white people)
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To: Vigilanteman

My son worked as a cashier at Kroger. They buy a lot of pre-packaged foods that are easy to sell as “loosies”. That’s why they always have cash for cigarettes.


55 posted on 02/16/2015 1:52:38 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: BCW
1 in 6 for TN....

Yeah, and a LOT that I see using the cards are young, able-bodied people. That really steams me.

56 posted on 02/16/2015 2:10:33 PM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Kartographer

Here in New Mexico it is common to see someone checking out at the grocery store while using 3 or 4 (or more) EBT cards.

After one ahead of me checked out I asked the checkout girl, what was the deal? Isn’t that fraudulent? Or even theft?

No, she says. It seems that those poor souls who live in the middle of nowhere will send their friends into the big city of Rio Rancho with a grocery list and their EBT cards. One person may be shopping for half a dozen families.

Sure they are.


57 posted on 02/16/2015 2:14:14 PM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: BCW
1 in 6 for TN....geez...KY and WV are in the top 10...

Perhaps the New Madrid will drop Memphis into the Mississippi; easing the burden on Tennessee taxpayers...

58 posted on 02/16/2015 2:14:30 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Demographics. It all comes down to demographics.

Perhaps in most cases, but can someone explain West Virginia?

59 posted on 02/16/2015 2:18:19 PM PST by Paradox (and now here we are....)
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To: Crusher138

LOL!

Drug users give their cards to their dealer for drugs. Then, when the cards are recharged the dealer uses them for twice the value of the drugs and returns them.
Or keeps them for the next month.
Kids are fed by schools and food pantries.

This would be stopped by a signature system of course.


60 posted on 02/16/2015 2:22:33 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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