[Nepeta]

Obama also said that his mother was on food stamps at some point in her life. Would this be a public record?

When did the food stamp program begin?

[bvw]

1939. See http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/11/us/FOODSTAMPS.html

But the program was revitalized and reformed under JFK in 1961 at the start of his Presidency. It was nationalized and expanded even further under LBJ’s “War on Poverty” in 1964.