Dear First Lady: I want, "Change" does, "This Movement" accept, "Food Stamps?"

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Bloomberg

Food Stamp Recipients at Record 41.8 Million Americans in July,
U.S. Says

By Alan Bjerga - Oct 5, 2010 3:46 PM CT

The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 41.8 million in July as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government said.

Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 18 percent from a year earlier and increased 1.4 percent from June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in a statement on its website.

Participation has set records for 20 straight months.

Unemployment in September may have reached 9.7 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts in advance
of the release of last month’s rate on Oct. 8.

Unemployment was 9.6 percent in July, near levels last seen
in 1983.

An average of 43.3 million people, more than an eighth of the population, will get food stamps each month in the year that
began Oct. 1, according to White House estimates.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-05/food-stamp-recipients-at-record-41-8-million-americans-in-july-u-s-says.html