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发帖数: 29846 | 1 12:51 PM, Oct 16, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER
Food stamps enrollment has hit a new record high. 46,681,833 million are now
enrolled in the social welfare program, according to the United States
Department of Agriculture, the federal department that runs the program.
Here's a chart from the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee,
outlining the program's enormous growth:
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As the chart shows, when President Obama took office, enrollment in the food
stamps program was 31.98 million. Now, not even four years later, it's a
whopping 46.48 million. (In 2002, as the chart states, "19.1 million
Americans received food stamps.")
In fact, the newly released data represents enrollment in July (the last
month for which data is available). Assuming the program remained on its
projected path, the number of those enrolled in food stamps is likely now
larger by several hundreds of thousands.
"USDA has engaged in an aggressive outreach and promotional campaign to
boost food stamp enrollment. Among these efforts are an ongoing partnership
with the Mexican government to advertise food stamps to Mexican nationals,
migrant workers, and non-citizen immigrants. Partly as a result of these
efforts, the number of non-citizens on food stamps has quadrupled since 2001
," explains the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee.
And the cost, the committee explains, is astronomical. "Total spending on
food stamps is projected to reach nearly $800 billion over the next 10 years
, with no fewer than 1 in 9 people on the program at any given time. Neither
food stamp participation nor spending on the program are ever projected to
return to pre-recession levels at any point in the next 10 years." |
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