This is what happens when you create an entitlement society....it's also a product of extending unemployment benefits which will keep many people out of work UNTIL those benefits expire. If Obama, his Administration and the Democrat Congress ONLY understood what motivates Americans....we are becoming a welfare state thanks to Obama....We've got to get back the premise that hard work pays off in America and it's NOT OK to accept handouts or government assistance...Jobless stats went up again today...what a GREAT JOB Obama is doing...NOT!....It's time for REAL CHANGE...only 89 days until the midterm elections...Get Mobilized!!!
Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May
Bloomberg News / August 5, 2010
The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.
Tweet 21 people Tweeted thisSubmit to DiggdiggsdiggYahoo! Buzz ShareThis Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website.
Participation has set records for 18 straight months.
Unemployment in July may have reached 9.6 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts in advance of the Aug. 6 release of last month’s rate. Unemployment was 9.5 percent in June, near levels last seen in 1983.
An average of 40.5 million people, more than an eighth of the population, will get food stamps each month in the year that began Oct. 1, according to White House estimates.
The figure is projected to rise to 43.
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