Food Stamp Program: Myths, Facts, and History

The Food Stamp Program Benefits the US Economy and Creates Jobs

Food Stamps. If you haven’t used them, you surely know someone who has. And you’ve heard all of the gripes and comments about “those people”. The Food Stamp Program has been a beloved right-wing piñata for 50 years. But it shouldn’t be that way.

Republicans have been crowing that food stamp participation has doubled during President Barack Obama’s administration. It has not. Monthly participation rose from an average 33,489,975 people in 2009 to 47,637,407 in July 2013. That is a 42 percent increase. Not 100%. That was during the worst recession since the 1930s Great Depression, and while the GOP steadfastly refuses to create any sort of jobs program for American workers.

Few Americans understand where the Food Stamp Program came from, how it works, or how it benefits all of us.

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