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

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.

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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

almost? robinlynne Jul 2013 #6

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