US food stamp list tops 34 million for first time
I'm pretty sure that there were no food stamps during the last great depression. My parents lived through that one, and it didn't sound like there was much help.
There are some signs that the economy is improving, but this isn't one of them.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries, government figures said on Thursday, a sign of the longest and one of the deepest recessions since the Great Depression
I'm pretty sure that there were no food stamps during the last great depression. My parents lived through that one, and it didn't sound like there was much help.
There are some signs that the economy is improving, but this isn't one of them.