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• Trip’s morning reading: Food stamp use on the rise

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  The use of food stamps, the federal program, has increased dramatically during the recession, reports the New York Times. Food stamps pays benefits to individuals and families making around the poverty level — around $22,000 for a family of four. Like the rest of the nation, use of food stamps is up in New Mexico, ...
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• The Shame of Food Stamps

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  How It Is Changing For many, using food stamps has been a confession of failure. Only the pressure of feeding their families drove them to accept the help it offered. But now the program is turning out to be more and more successful. According to The New York Times: "a program once scorned as a failed welfare ...
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• Good News: Food Stamp Use Soaring; Stigma Gone

  
  brianlee — Authority: 136
  A very interesting post from www.redstate.com . For more interesting stories like this one subscribe to this blog here . Good News: Food Stamp Use Soaring; Stigma Gone Good News if Youre Building a Social Democracy, Anyway Posted by Brian Faughnan ( Profile ) Update: The Times piece quoted here skates too ...
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• The Housing Crisis and Wall Street Shame

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 142
  The $75 billion federal program designed to bribe banks to modify mortgages has been a bust. No one knows the exact number of mortgages that have been modified (that will be reported next month) but... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Yesterday I Linked an Article from the NYT

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  which was about the growing use of food stamps by vast numbers of people, and that the stigma of receiving the assistance has decreased . The "welfare bum" who had food stamps to buy booze and junk food has pretty much fallen by the wayside. But the increase in food stamps points to a bigger problem: The Times ...
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• Food Stamps are all the Rage During Funemployment

  
  Ruby Slippers — Authority: 568
  Via  Memeorandum The New York Times   reports there are so many people receiving "nutritional aid," (nee food stamps) the stigma once associated with being on the dole is fading fast.  Consider this the latest sign of hope and change during the Obama administration.   The program is so successful it is ...
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• 拡大するフードスタンプの受給者にみる経済不況の傷跡

  
  maclalala:annex — Authority: 104
  ［ フードスタンプ用に備蓄された食料品 ］ アメリカを覆う 失業の波 にはことばを失う。 NY タイムズが特集した失業の際のセーフティネットに関する特集は不況の傷跡がいかに深刻であるが痛感させる。 ...
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• one in eight adults

  
  ravings of a semi-sane madwoman — Authority: 446
  and one in four children. thats your next door neighbors. thats you. thats me we MUST start waking up and taking care of ourselves and our planet. there COULD be plenty for ALL (all as in the WORLD) of us to eat cheaply and with health in mind (yeah no more fast fatty foods. no more cows eating our grains. WED be ...
  16 hours ago

• IC 132: The Man Cave

  
  The Insanity Report — Authority: 133
  "Dubai is what happens when you give men a country with unlimited access construction and money"
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• Millions Using Food Stamps—The Functions Of Social Welfare Programs

  
  Texas Liberal — Authority: 561
  The New York Times reports that 36 million Americans are using food stamp programs. Here is a portion of the what the story on this subject says—- “I t has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic ...
  18 hours ago

• Obamanomics! Taking the stigma out of food stamps!

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 584
  How much stigma can their be when one in eight Americans (one in four kids) use food stamps? I guess we can chalk this off as another unprecedented accomplishment of President Barack Obama. Brian Faughn remembers “the bad old days of the Bush economy, when millions of Americans were forced to rely on private ...
  21 hours ago

• Once Upon a Time, There Was a Stigma Attached

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  to getting food stamps because, after all, people who got them were welfare "bums." However, thanks to massive unemployment and poverty, the stigma has long since passed. It also helps many if not all states have converted food stamps to an ATM card . The outreach worker is a telltale sign. Like many states, Ohio ...
  21 hours ago

• Across U.S., Food Stamp Use Soars and Stigma Fades

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  "With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use ...
  22 hours ago

• The Disconcerting Reality of Food Stamp America [Recessionomics]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  Americas food stamp welfare program is now feeding one in eight Americans, and almost one in every four children . This is terrifying for a number of reasons, the least among them being "everyones poor." The New York Times ran a big, beautiful piece today profiling the program and its newest recipients. To call ...
  22 hours ago

• Food Stamp Usage Across The U.S.

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 725
  It’s higher than you think. Smart of the NYTimes to run this major piece on Food Stamps on the weekend following Thanksgiving. The number of food stamp recipients has risen by nearly 10 million over the past two years; the program that now feeds 1 in 8 Americans and nearly 1 in 4 children. Click for an ...
  23 hours ago

• Food Stamp Stigma

  
  Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog — Authority: 128
  New Orleans One day I write that receiving food stamps is the “new normal,” as we say in New Orleans, and the next day there’s a front page story in the Sunday Times by Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff with a headline that includes the words:  “stigma fades.” Wow!  Am I ahead of the curve or ...
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• U.S. Issues Commemorative Stamp Honoring the ‘Food Stamp’

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 539
  “NOW, THE REAL BEAUTY OF THIS STAMP, IS THAT IT ACTUALLY TURNS INTO A FOOD STAMP.”
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• The New York Times Sunday Cover: Food Stamps For All!

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 797
  The  New York Times delivered a sobering message on Sunday with a lead story that read “Food Stamp Use Soars Across U.S., and Stigma Fades.” We’re all hurting, the paper seemed to say, as a giant United States infographic detailing the change in number of people who receive food stamps over the past two years ...
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• Use of food stamps in US up 20pc in recession

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  One in four American children relies on food stamps, the US welfare programme that has seen a 20 per cent rise in participants since the recession hit two years ago.
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• As Food Stamp Use Soars, Stigma Fades

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 629
  From the NY Times: MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the ...
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