
USDA: 101 Million Americans Receive Food Stamps
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA)reported that 101,000,000 Americans are on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the domestic US at a cost of $114 billion annually as of 2012. For perspective, the number of US citizens receiving food stamps surpasses the number of employed workers in the private sector. The Bureau of Labor (BoL)…