Relevant:
- Austerity nation – 45 million Americans on food assistance programs. Americans shopping at discount dollar stores confronting the realities of a shrinking dollar and disappearing middle class.
- The difference between investing in the dollar store economy and living in it: 20 percent of Americans now receiving food stamps. Dollar stores become a growth industry and top one percent gobble up all income gains after recession.
- Ph.D. in food stamps -- the rise of food stamp usage among those with advanced degrees
- The food stamp economic recovery -- Food stamps increase by over 600,000 in last month of data. GDP at record levels yet US employment is 4 million below start of recession.
- The new face of food stamps: working-age Americans
2012-01-13 — mybudget360.com
``EBT Nation -- Electronic Benefit Transfer. Since the recession ended in summer of 2009 we have added 14,000,000+ Americans to food stamp programs. Family Dollar Stores up 23 percent in 2011 while overall stock market flat.''
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