We also know, anecdotally, of how, in the past decade, millions more Americans have become dependent on food stamps and on jobless benefits (not just for the six-month normal duration, but now for as long as two years).
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Then there are stories of PhD on food stamps and the list goes on and on.
Obama has also been the food stamp President, with the number on food stamps increasing during his Administration to an all time record high of 47.7 million, up 80% over the past 5 years.
With four children, Anzor and Zubeidat qualified for food stamps and were on and off public assistance benefits for years.
Welfare and food stamps are issued on cards, which can be downloaded at the register or through an automatic teller machine.
As is well known now, Nadya Suleman, a 33-year-old single mother of six surviving on food stamps and Social Security disability payments, gave birth to the nation's first set of octuplets on Jan. 26, bringing her total brood to 14.
The food-stamp programme has a rule limiting able-bodied, childless adults to three months on food stamps every three years but it is suspended at times of high unemployment, leaving only recent immigrants and those convicted of drug offences to go hungry.
Recently one of the most accomplished published a story about going on food stamps.
Another plan to restrict food stamps from being used on soda was blocked by federal regulators.
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Downes had gone on food stamps and taken a part-time job blowing leaves for a landscaper.
Ten percent of Americans relied on food stamps for at least part of 2010.
That was Monday, May 13th, at the end of the story on food stamps and food insecurity.
In Louisiana, where I work and live, one out of every six people is on food stamps.
To find out what it's like, I approached the state about living on food stamps for a month.
Those who are on food stamps truly need them to feed their family.
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Spending on food stamps has risen so quickly because, unusually, almost all the needy are automatically and indefinitely eligible for them.
Just the time alone cuts into your free time and most of those on food stamps don't have luxuries like dishwashers.
And there are surely people on welfare and on food stamps and those numbers have been growing as times have gotten worse.
We don't have to settle for 47 million people on food stamps.
When you came to office 32 million people on food stamps.
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They might be the families of the one in two children who will do time on food stamps before they reach the age of 18.
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In the US, he said, the economy is weak, with a 7.6% unemployment rate and millions of people on food stamps, but the stock market is strong.
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And I think a lot about our children, our school children, and people who are on food stamps -- and just the entire nation needs to live healthy.
Last week, before the annual conclave of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, he decried the fact that 5, 000 troops are on food stamps and warned about recruiting shortfalls.
My family was on food stamps when I was a child, and I had the same question for my mom: How can we be poor and my brother be fat?
The program is open to people who meet federal poverty guidelines or are on food stamps, Medicaid or other assistance programs, and only one Lifeline subscriber is allowed per household.
Recently he has referred often to his white grandfather, who fought in the second world war, and to his white mother, who for a while scraped by on food stamps.
There has been a surge in American citizens on welfare over the last four years, including a 50-percent increase in people on food stamps (from 32 to 47 million).
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