In November 2008, food stamp applicants topped 30 million for the first time in history.
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But anti-hunger advocates say the food stamp increase is an important step in addressing a serious problem.
So the - you know, the store where you're going to has to be food stamp accessible.
Food stamp program costs doubled between 2001 and 2006, and then doubled again between 2008 and 2012.
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Does any Christian honestly consider surging food stamp usage under Obama as reflective of a loving federal apparatus?
President Clinton says he'll seek to restore some of the food stamp funding and restore eligibility for non-citizens.
After all, Washington is in the food stamp business, not the supermarket business.
He couldn't give me the food stamp funds, that would be fraud, even though I offered to reimburse the government.
The waivers would allow the states to privatize administration and delivery of food stamp programs for portions of the states' populations.
Additionally, food stamp growth is 75 times greater than job creation, and now 14.7 million Americans are food stamp recipients.
For example, in the past 20 months Florida's food stamp caseload has grown by more than a half million people, to 1.8 million.
That is what happened after a contractor established a call center in India for New Jersey welfare and food stamp recipients in 2002.
Such a measure presumably would involve tax rebates, business tax cuts and funding for a Democratic-led call for additional food stamp and employment aid.
Whether or not Texas ever realizes its privatization plan, other states are picking up Texas' lead in seeking to privatize their food stamp programs.
Mulqueen was also charged a month ago with food stamp fraud.
To continue to address that barrier, the initiative is equipping certain vendors with wireless EBT machines capable of processing food stamp benefits right on the street.
At the beginning of 2012, it was estimated that over 20% of US residential mortgages are under water and almost 15% of Americans use food stamp benefits.
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For example, more than a dozen states use federal food stamp subsidies to give a dollar home heating credit for people who do not have a utility bill.
Under the Obama administration, the number of food stamp recipients has also grown dramatically, up from 28.2 million in 2008 to more than 44.7 million in fiscal 2011.
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Despite nominal improvements in the unemployment rate, the U.S. Department of Agriculture counts more than 47 million people in its food stamp program nearly one out of every seven Americans.
Whatever the flaws of the food stamp program, at least it does not require grocers to accept 40 percent less for food-stamp payments than they would from other customers.
If anything, the pressure is to reverse small parts of the 1996 welfare overhaul law (PL 104-193) by, for example, restoring food stamp benefits to the most vulnerable legal immigrants.
And eventually, we're going to have to do it because people will be left without a lifeline if we don't, you know, shore up the unemployment system and the food stamp system.
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For instance, if a more restricted food stamp just provides a transaction cost for recipients and they generally find a way around it, then it may be a cost with no benefit.
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.
Most of what is left over was claimed by the big highway bill (HR2400) that is on President Clinton's desk or by an agriculture research and food stamp bill (S1150) that the House cleared June 4.
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