Use of up to 17% since last year's food stamps

By Roland Jones, editor of msnbc.com

The recession may be completed, but the number of Americans to stamps food continues to be successful, 17 per cent in the year ago levels, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal Web site.

A superb 42,389,619 now use stamps food to 58.5% of August 2007, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture August cited in the story.

This means almost 14 percent of American households are still in relying on the assistance to buy food that continuous economy total pate.Le families has increased by 1.3% in July.

The range of numbers widely from State to State, with 20 percent or from federal to buy food in Mississippi, Tennessee and Washington, D.C.However less than 10 percent of people in nine States, led by the Wyoming, New Jersey and new Hampshire.

The Idaho saw the biggest jump in in the past year, 38.8%, food stamp recipients but rollers are fairly low with the residents of State Fair 211,883 August food stamps collection, 13.7% of the average size of benefits per person in the country in August population.La was $133.90, whereas the average benefit per household size was of $287.82, according to the newspaper, which has a breakdown by pleasant state here.

Stamps food, though heard, no longer come in the form of stamp, but instead of it, are distributed through a kind of map of débit.Le program has been renamed several years ago and is now the supplemental nutrition program.


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