Saturday, March 7, 2009

Record level of Food Stamp Enrollment

Just wanted to put this out there, just to show how bad it really is out there.

Food stamp enrollment jumps to record 31.8 million
Thu Mar 5, 2009 3:34pm EST

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE52478R20090305

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A record 31.8 million Americans received food stamps at the latest count, an increase of 700,000 people in one month with the United States in recession, government figures showed on Thursday...

...The average food stamp benefit is $115 a month for individuals and $255 a month per household....

...Enrollment for food stamps in December was up 2.2 percent from the previous month with increases in all but three states. Ohio had the largest increase among large states, up 3.4 percent, to 1.26 million people. Texas had the largest enrollment, 3.05 million, up 1.8 percent."

And we have yet to see deflation. Please Bernanke, don't even try to print any more money.

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