Sadly, this is no April Fool’s Joke. Today, the British newspaper The Independent writes:
Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world’s richest country faces economic crisis.
Read the whole piece here.
In West Virginia, one in six receives food stamps, the highest level of participation in at least 30 years. And The New York Times reports that, nationwide “the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the coming year, the highest level since the aid program began in the 1960s.”
Today the Columbus Dispatch reports that nearly 1 in 10 Ohio citizens now receive food stamps, the highest amount in state history and double since 2001.
Things just keep getting better, don’t they?
UPDATE (3/28): The article linked above states that low wages, unemployment, and the rising cost of groceries, gasoline and other necessities are to blame for this financial hardship in Ohio. Here, read an interesting article about the “Government Engineered Food Crisis,” written by Linda Chavez (chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity and author of “Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics”) and posted on Townhall.com.
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