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One in seven Americans rely on food stamps, costing taxpayers $78 billion in 2011.
Food stamp costs are mushrooming. More than 46 million Americans – about one in seven – rely on food stamps, the equivalent of the entire populations of Texas and New York. The program now consumes 2 percent of the federal budget, or $78 billion in fiscal 2011. That’s about the cost of the auto industry bailout.
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: Urban Institute: “SNAP’s role in the Great Recession and beyond” More
: Time Magazine: "Food Stamps: More Benefit to Big Food than to the Poor" More
: San Francisco Chronicle: "Use of government aid for junk food questioned" More
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