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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Food-stamp use rose 2.7% in the U.S. in February from a year earlier, with
15% of the U.S. population receiving benefits. (See an interactive map with
data on use since 1990.)
One of the federal government’s biggest social welfare programs, which
expanded when the economy convulsed, isn’t shrinking back alongside the
recovery.
Food stamp rolls increased on a year-over-year basis, but were 0.4% lower
from the prior month, the
U.S. Department of Agriculture reported. Though annual growth continues, the
pace has slowed since the depths of the recession.
The number of recipients in the food stamp program, formally known as the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), reached 47.6 million, or
nearly one in seven Americans.
Illinois was the only state to see a double-digit year-over-year jump in use
, while Utah, Michigan, North Dakota, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Arizona
, Maine and Texas all posted annual drops.
Mississippi was the state with the largest share of its population relying
on food stamps — 22% — though Washington, DC was a bit higher overall at
23%. One in five residents in Oregon, New Mexico, Louisiana, Tennessee,
Georgia and Kentucky also were food-stamp recipients. Wyoming had the
smallest share of its population on food stamps — 7%. |
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