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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts) Wed Jul 17, 2013, 11:21 PM Jul 2013

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

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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Everything one needs to know about why food-stamp use is so "high" (Original Post) cthulu2016 Jul 2013 OP

It could also be more part-time workers who need to get Food Stamps WCGreen Jul 2013 #1

Yes, the unemployment rate in that chart is U6, so it cthulu2016 Jul 2013 #4

And here I was, thinking it was because Obama is a Muslin. NYC_SKP Jul 2013 #2

oh i thought it was because he was a communist socialist La Lioness Priyanka Jul 2013 #3

You could almost argue working at a Wal-Mart type job almost dooms you to needing food stamps. reformist2 Jul 2013 #5

almost? robinlynne Jul 2013 #6

walmart urges their employees to apply for medicaid, then they make claims that something like 80 putitinD Jul 2013 #7

kr. shocker. i don't mean that food stamp use has risen, i mean how freaking stupid the lapdog HiPointDem Jul 2013 #8

Obama is the "Food Stamp President" ErikJ Jul 2013 #9

WCGreen

(45,558 posts)

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

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2013, 11:30 PM

Jul 2013

in order to make it...

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)

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

Reply to WCGreen (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 17, 2013, 11:35 PM

Jul 2013

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

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

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

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2013, 11:31 PM

Jul 2013

J/K

K/R

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)

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

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 17, 2013, 11:32 PM

Jul 2013

reformist2

(9,841 posts)

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

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2013, 11:36 PM

Jul 2013

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

(15,481 posts)

6. almost?

Reply to reformist2 (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 12:14 AM

Jul 2013

putitinD

(1,551 posts)

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

Reply to reformist2 (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 01:51 AM

Jul 2013

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

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)

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

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 01:59 AM

Jul 2013

media and the rulers are.

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)

9. Obama is the "Food Stamp President"

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 02:20 AM

Jul 2013

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

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