The most recent year for which data are available (2010) shows the highest number of participants in the Food Stamp (now called SNAP) program’s history, at 40.3 million participants on average per month. The average monthly number of SNAP participants has grown by 234% since 2000. http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/SNAPsummary.htm
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About six million Americans receiving Food Stamps (SNAP) report no other income, an increase of about 50% over the past two years.
A new analysis of county-level SNAP (Food Stamps) usage across the country shows widespread change. With more than 36 million recipients, the program is expanding at a rate of about 20,000 people per day.
The SNAP program (Food Stamps) now helps feed 1 in 8 Americans and 1 in 4 children across the United States. Nonetheless, there are wide disparities across states in the percentage of eligible people receiving aid.
The monthly number of people receiving SNAP (formerly known as Food Stamps) has risen in almost every month since February 2007, from 26.2 million to 35.1 million in June 2009. The number of households receiving SNAP has increased from 11.6 million to 15.9 million during the same time period. In just the past year (since June…
After increasing 145% from January 2000 to January 2009, the Michigan food assistance caseload continued to increase through May 2009, with a total of 718,277 cases. The table below shows the number of food assistance cases per county.
Research on US programs for the needy (i.e., welfare, unemployment, housing assistance, Food Stamps and health insurance), published by the New York Times, reveals that as millions of people seek aid, they are finding a complex system that reaches some and rejects others.
The USDA’s Economic Research Service has recently released an illustrated guide to research findings on nutrition assistance programs, food insecurity, food prices, food spending, global food security, healthy eating, agriculture, and more. Some of the graphs from the report are excerpted below.
Federal spending on food programs increased significantly between 1990 and 2007.
This link opens a Reuters article on the rising number of Americans receiving Food Stamps (SNAP) assistance. In September 2008 one in 10 Americans were participating in the food stamp program.