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7 States With the Most People on Food Stamps
CheatSheet ^ | March 20, 2015 | Erika Rawes

Posted on 03/20/2015 12:29:26 PM PDT by bgill

With a grocery bills priced as high as $1,300 per month as of late, some American workers simply cannot afford all of their groceries on top of everything else they already have to buy. This is why the government offers food stamps.

The USDA Food and Nutrition Service reports that as of September 2014, there were around 46.5 million individual food stamp recipients (22.7 million households) receiving an average benefit of $123.74 each (around $257 per household).

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: ebt; foodstamps; grifters
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To: cherry

Understood, but the Legislature does not have to fund the addiction.


81 posted on 03/20/2015 5:47:16 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: bgill; goodnesswins; PROCON; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; ...

If you would like more information about what's happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me.

I lost my Oregon list when my computer crashed last year, so please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.

82 posted on 03/20/2015 7:30:47 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: cherry
Mississippi is becoming an incredibly drug addled society with lots of crime....

I believe your statement should be amended to if the community is greater than 65% minority.

83 posted on 03/20/2015 7:32:49 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: wally_bert

I buy my groceries at Wal-Mart. It is not uncommon to have an Hispanic family of three, four, or five in line ahead, using EBT cards, and cannot speak English. I will occasionally translate for the clerk, but my Spanish is poor, mostly aided by Latin language in my youth.


84 posted on 03/20/2015 7:36:10 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: dragnet2

It doesn’t tell the ‘true’ story because states are not uniform. It does show that if California, Texas, New York and Florida were ran more like Wyoming huge savings could be achieved. Going on food stamps has become far too acceptable. We should never have instituted such a system.


85 posted on 03/22/2015 3:07:38 PM PDT by Maelstorm (America wasn't founded with the battle cry give me Liberty or cut me a government check!".)
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To: Carry me back

Yes it is and I know that. I just find this kind of thing misleading. Here is a better graphic.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/28/us/20091128-foodstamps.html?_r=0


86 posted on 03/22/2015 3:15:18 PM PDT by Maelstorm (America wasn't founded with the battle cry give me Liberty or cut me a government check!".)
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To: Maelstorm

“”It doesn’t tell the ‘true’ story””

Of course it does, it’s why they use per capita because the size of populations all vary. This is not complex.


87 posted on 03/22/2015 5:09:14 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Labyrinthos
Yes, but what is Mississippi’s excuse?

I'm sure their problems will be resolved any day now. After all, they just re-elected Thud.

Be proud, Republicans!

88 posted on 03/22/2015 5:17:00 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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To: COBOL2Java

Exactly :-)


89 posted on 03/22/2015 5:29:33 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: bgill

My cheap meal would be baked whole chicken legs, mashed potatoes, black eyed peas and some other fresh vegetable. Dirt cheap and truly delicious.


90 posted on 03/22/2015 5:49:58 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: bgill

Except for the cost of gasoline, it is now cheaper to eat out EVERY meal. The cost of groceries is prohibitively high - 1200/month is 40/day. When you factor in prep time and clean up it is a better bargain to go out. Clearly restaurants get cut rates on food.


91 posted on 03/22/2015 5:54:21 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Maelstorm

A Texas family told me they went on food stamps and a few days later became employed. They tried to get the food stamps cancelled but was told they were retro-eligible for 3 (or 6?) months so weren’t taken off the dole. Never heard of the retro thing. The family continued to use them even though dad had a 3 figure job.


92 posted on 03/23/2015 11:12:46 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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