Throughout the presidential campaign, Republican candidates pointed
to the number of food stamp recipients -- increasing from 33 million
people in 2009 to 43 million in 2012 -- as a sign that poverty had
skyrocketed under President Obama. But a new study suggests that the
reason there has been such an increase in food stamp recipients during
the last four years is even more pernicious.
The study's authors, George Mason University's David Armor and Sonia Sousa, argue that the food stamp program can no longer be regarded as an anti-poverty program because nearly half of its recipients are above the poverty line, many of them substantially so. And other anti-poverty programs have an even higher percentage of the non-poor among their recipients.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/2012/12/07/the_american_welfare_state
The study's authors, George Mason University's David Armor and Sonia Sousa, argue that the food stamp program can no longer be regarded as an anti-poverty program because nearly half of its recipients are above the poverty line, many of them substantially so. And other anti-poverty programs have an even higher percentage of the non-poor among their recipients.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/2012/12/07/the_american_welfare_state
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