Big Government: The number of people enrolled in food stamps dropped by two million since President Trump took office, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The USDA data show that the number of people enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the government program that administers food stamps, plunged to 42,182,443 in fiscal year (FY) 2017 —a drop of 2,036,920 from the 44,219,363 enrolled in FY 2016.
Participation in the program is at its lowest level since 2010, when 40,302,000 people enrolled in the program.
Food stamp enrollment steadily declined after 2013, when participation in the government program swelled to 47.6 million—the highest amount it has ever been since former President Lyndon Johnson authorized the creation of the food stamp program in 1964. Taxpayers spent $79.8 million on SNAP when enrollment reached its peak in 2013.
When the USDA began recording how much taxpayers spent on the food stamp program in 1969, taxpayers spent $250 million to subsidize the 2.8 million receiving benefits. read more
Pretty sure that number in paragraph 3 is $79.8 Billion
POOR OBAMA!!
4 YEARS FIGHTING BUSH’S MESS, 4 YEARS FIGHTING GOP CONGRESS, NOW TRUMP IS TAKING CREDIT FOR ALL THE POSITIVE IMPACTS OF THE BLACK MESSIAH’S EFFORTS!!
SARC OFF
“…..Enrollment Drops by 2 Million”….
Damn nice start but a long way to go.
That probably just represents the skim the democrats were pocketing for running interference for their hordes of grifters out there.
That just proves President Trump is…racist!!!
If work requirements were mandated, the roles would drop. We could then care for those in “real” need, not just those who refuse to work.
I cannot currently find the article but I read recently that some jurisdiction recently imposed some really minor requirements, (i.e., 6 hours per week of community service) on adults without children who were collecting food stamps and in a relatively brief time, reduced the roles by something like 70%.
I work PT for a local government and I am frequently disgusted at the way government actually encourages dependency…..
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Oops! Found it!
and misspoke: “… But despite vigorous outreach efforts by the government to encourage participation, most childless adult recipients in Maine refused to participate in training or even to perform community service for six hours per week. When ABAWD recipients refused to participate, their food stamp benefits ceased.
In the first three months after Maine’s work policy went into effect, its caseload of able-bodied adults without dependents plummeted by 80 percent, falling from 13,332 recipients in Dec. 2014 to 2,678 in March 2015.”
The article is here:
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/robert-rector/when-maine-required-childless-adults-work-get-food-stamps-guess-what
But we are told that 1 in 5 children in this country are hungry…something does not add up.
There’s probably a lot of illegals in that count. They know enough to lie and get expedited benefits then their anchor babies certainly get benefits. Good riddance to them.