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Food Stamp Users Near Record High Despite Low Unemployment Rate
MRC TV ^ | 02/29/2016 | Nick Kangadis

Posted on 03/01/2016 10:20:20 AM PST by Olog-hai

Despite the unemployment rate being at an eight-year low (4.9 percent as of January 2016), the number of people on food stamps remains near an all-time high which was 47,636,000 in 2013.

Why the disparity in the numbers? Well, the unemployment rate does not take into account people who are not in, or have dropped out of, the workforce altogether.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in January of this year that approximately 94 million Americans are not participating in the workforce.

But the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has been hovering around 46 million participants since 2011. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at mrctv.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: clowardandpiven; ebt; foodstamps; liberalagenda; obama; snap; unemployment
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1 posted on 03/01/2016 10:20:20 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

But we are not allowed to call.Obama the food stamp president.


2 posted on 03/01/2016 10:21:37 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They’ll get off food stamps once they land one of those sweet $15/hr gigs flipping burgers. No wait, then there won’t be any jobs.


3 posted on 03/01/2016 10:23:33 AM PST by scottinoc
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Of course, a chart by Sen. Sessions was posted that stated 91% of migrants collect food stamps.


4 posted on 03/01/2016 10:25:00 AM PST by mouse1
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To: Olog-hai

That’s because the number of people on food stamps is a real number, and the unemployment figure is manipulated rubbish.


5 posted on 03/01/2016 10:25:08 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Olog-hai

Greatest economy

Ever


6 posted on 03/01/2016 10:25:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Olog-hai

They will get off food-stamps when we bring the jobs back and the labor market looks safe to return to. They will return when the rewards in the labor market are higher than the subsistence level of food-stamps and the market looks stable enough that they don’t think they will get trapped.

By trapped, I mean that they are afraid if they take a job and lose their food-stamps and then get fired or laid off, they will be worse off than if they had just stayed on food stamps.

Some may need intervention to get off. But that’s a wasted effort until there are sufficient jobs.


7 posted on 03/01/2016 10:28:21 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Olog-hai

2 Thess 3:10 “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”

This isn’t about being greedy or stingy with tax dollars. It’s about the harm that dependence on involuntary charity does to the recipient. It is immoral to take self-respect from people and turn them into welfare bums, government pets who are taken care of in return for their captive votes in favor of the only life they know - the life of a parasite.


8 posted on 03/01/2016 10:29:35 AM PST by Pollster1 ("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless." - Scalia)
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To: Olog-hai

I am all for helping the poor,
but why there are no restrictions on what they can buy with EBT cards?
Junk food, beer, wine, donuts, chocolates, lobsters, etc
can be bought with EBT cards.
The food companies are the biggest lobbyists for EBT.
Because they can sell more of the un-healthy stuff,
which has bigger profit margins.


9 posted on 03/01/2016 10:30:33 AM PST by entropy12 (When you vote, you are actually voting for the rich donors!)
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To: Olog-hai

Kinda confirms how phony the unemployment figures have become, doesn’t it?


10 posted on 03/01/2016 10:30:35 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: kosciusko51

You’re right!!!!


11 posted on 03/01/2016 10:31:53 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: entropy12

Once again the Democrats were genius when they legislated the food stamp program under the Agriculture Dept rather than (what was then called) Welfare.


12 posted on 03/01/2016 10:33:47 AM PST by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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To: entropy12

My son was a grocery store cashier for years and he never saw anyone buy lobsters or steaks with EBT and certainly not beer. What they did buy was convenience foods like Hot Pockets and the like.

Almost all EBT is SNAP.


13 posted on 03/01/2016 10:33:55 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe people are just hungrier than they used to be. /s


14 posted on 03/01/2016 10:34:13 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Olog-hai

More than 50% of food stamp recipients do have a job and are working.


15 posted on 03/01/2016 10:35:18 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: Pollster1
A corruption of that scripture appears in Article 12 of the 1936 USSR constitution (commissioned by Stalin):
In the USSR, work is a duty and a matter of honor for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: "He who does not work, neither shall he eat."

The principle applied in the USSR is that of socialism: "From each according to his ability; to each according to his work."
The scripture absolutely did not mean for submission of the principle to Caesar in all things.
16 posted on 03/01/2016 10:36:24 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

How curious.


17 posted on 03/01/2016 10:37:20 AM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Olog-hai

The unemployment number is at best a deception (more than a lie). It’s more like a gubermint snake oil con job for suckers that would believe it


18 posted on 03/01/2016 10:40:14 AM PST by clamper1797 (This space for rent)
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To: Olog-hai

Many people work under the table, or not at all, to stay under poverty levels and receive “benefits.” Only people seeking jobs in which you are required to pay taxes are recorded in the governments unemployment number.


19 posted on 03/01/2016 10:40:57 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: AppyPappy

Sorry Pappy ... I did ten years with Lucky stores and my wife did ten years with Safeway. Lobster and steak food stamp (pre EBT) purchases were common place at out mutual stores


20 posted on 03/01/2016 10:42:42 AM PST by clamper1797 (This space for rent)
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