Working families earn more food stamps

[Doondoo]

If you want to find the people behind the country's big jump in food stamps, you have to go to work. That's where they are. The number of American households bringing in a paycheck and collecting food stamps has risen from 19 percent to 29 percent in recent years, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The same is true in Ohio and Cuyahoga County. Working families collecting food stamps more than doubled in the state between 2000 and 2006.

"It's the restructuring of our economy," says Joseph Gauntner, director of Cuyahoga County's Employment & Family Services, "the proverbial steelworker who now cleans offices and works at McDonald's."

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"We're seeing a kind of hollowing out of middle-class jobs," says Margy Waller, director of The Mobility Agenda in Washington, D.C., which conducts research on low-wage work. "We're just about to release a report that will show that about one in three jobs pays under $10 an hour."


http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1172309431111490.xml&coll=2

[WindRavenX]

1. Jesus

This country has gone to the dogs.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Enlisted families are another place to look.

How despicable that anyone in the military should end up with food stamps. The pay should be enough to live on and they shouldn't have to be humiliated like that either.:grr:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2001/n05012001_200105012.html


http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/moneymatters/a/foodstamps.htm?terms=supplemental+pay

[sarcasmo]

3. The working poor. What a sad state we are in.

[Stargazer99]

4. It is time for a Boston Tea Party

When 1% of the US citizens own 90% of the wealth...I wonder how long it will take before the common man wakes up and what he will do about it.

[PaDem]

5. This is a friggin' outrage.........

Boston tea party indeed. There has to be a breaking point.