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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" [View all]

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" [View all] 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