Everything one needs to know about why food-stamp use is so "high"

[cthulu2016]

The SNAP program (often aka "food-stamps&quot is right where it is supposed to be.

More people are on food-stamps because more people need food-stamps.

As we already knew... there has been no seismic shift in how poor you have to be to get food-stamps, or in people's willingness to seek them. There has only been a lot of additional need. Actual not-having-any-money type of need.

And if un&underemployment keeps going down, SNAP will follow it down.

SNAP participation is the percentage of the population receiving food stamps. U6 is the unemployment measure that includes the underemployed and those who aren’t currently searching because no jobs are available. SNAP participation normally follows U6 with a lag, and is in that sense behaving normally.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/march-of-the-munching-moochers/

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[WCGreen]

1. It could also be more part-time workers who need to get Food Stamps

in order to make it...

[cthulu2016]

4. Yes, the unemployment rate in that chart is U6, so it

includes underemployment. I think U6 correlates with SNAP more closely than the basic unemployment rate, for just the reason you cite.

[NYC_SKP]

2. And here I was, thinking it was because Obama is a Muslin.

J/K



K/R

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. oh i thought it was because he was a communist socialist

[reformist2]

5. You could almost argue working at a Wal-Mart type job almost dooms you to needing food stamps.

How many people after working 40, 50 hours a week at Wal-Mart are going to be able to work a second job to make the extra money that would lift them out of poverty? And if they have a couple kids at home? Forget it.

Talk about perpetuating the cycle of poverty - it's not "broken families", it's Wal-Mart!

[robinlynne]

6. almost?

[putitinD]

7. walmart urges their employees to apply for medicaid, then they make claims that something like 80

percent of their employees have health coverage. yeah, thanks to us tax payers

[HiPointDem]

8. kr. shocker. i don't mean that food stamp use has risen, i mean how freaking stupid the lapdog

media and the rulers are.

[ErikJ]

9. Obama is the "Food Stamp President"

or so every Republican tells me. I tell them Bush is the $70 billion dollar Bankster Bailout/Bonus President.