[spintreebob]

"There are simply some people who don't choose to apply"
"More people would apply ... if bigger staff"

[spintreebob]

200 offices in the State. That's one for every state rep district, every county, plus every ward in the city and extra for every city over 100,000 with a poor neighborhood.

And how many staffers per office? My guess is more than 10 but less than 20 per office.

Illinois is 9th of 52 including DC and PR. So what is the correlation between blue state and participation rate? With all the pressure from the staffers and accusations that they are not good parents unless they apply for food stamps and threats that they will lose their children if they are not good parents, why do 1/3 not apply for food stamps?

[Pete'sWife]

In NYC there are radio ads practically begging people to sign up for food stamps.

Obviously, the advertising staff is sufficiently large.

[xtinct]

Article refers to 'cutting the dead beat personell' with no show jobs off.

Here in MA not only do they have 'no show' government jobs but 'no show' jobs at universities according to friends who work there and friends whose kids go to school there.

[Publius6961]

Only 67 percent of Illinoisans who are eligible for federal food stamps receive them, Illinois Hunger Coalition Executive Director Diane Doherty said.

These people are truly sick. And they can't figure out why they are despised and disrespected. They are totally clueless.

To them, the measure of success is how far they are able to induce a bad thing to grow. Success, beyond their wildest imagination, is if 125% of the "eligible" food stamp recipients applied and got food stamps.
(Of course, in the real world, that would never happen; they would "raise" the threshold)

Hello?!!?

These leeches on society had better get a grip. Better yet, how about a real job? Giving away other people's money should be a job the worker pays to keep.

[sweetliberty]

"More people would apply for and receive food stamps if Human Services had a bigger staff

Geez! Now I've heard it all...state food stamp offices who would recruit applicants. It is all about keeping the federal money coming in.

[valkyrieanne]

Maybe some people choose not to apply because they want to *solve their own problems* and not let the gov't solve them for them.