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- Foodstamps Surge By Most In One Year To New All Time Record, In Election-Delayed Release
- Three Times As Many Americans Enter Poverty As Find Jobs
- Percentage of Americans Living in Poverty Rises to Highest Level Since 1993
- US Foodstamp Usage Rises To New Record High
- ‘Near Poor' - Not Quite in Poverty, but Still Struggling
2012-12-10 — zerohedge.com
And we thought last month's delayed foodstamp data was bad. The just reported foodstamp number for September was a doozy, with 607,544 new Americans becoming eligible for foodstamps, as a record 47.7 million Americans are now living in poverty at least according to the USDA. The monthly increase was the highest since May 2011, and with August's 421K new impoverished America, over 1 million Americans made the EBT card their new best friend.
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