Record number of Ill. families on food stamps

[sabra]

Source: Chicago Trib

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. —
Officials say the number of Illinois families receiving food stamps has reached its highest level ever.

More than 780,000 Illinois families got food stamps in June. The Illinois Department of Human Services said Monday that the figure is up 11.9 percent from a year earlier.

Applications for the program jumped even more -- 27 percent.

The food stamp program is formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

A family of three can be get up to $526 in monthly benefits, depending on their income and expenses. The average in Illinois is $296 a month.


Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-ap-il-foodstamps,0,3203383.story

[aquart]

1. Brilliant time to make cuts in the program, don't you think?

[truedelphi]

3. Where else can they find the money to help them

Round up fifty nine billion bucks for the ongoing wars?

You don't think they'll try to tax rich people, do you? During an election year?

It's always the common person that bears the brunt of the burden of the Upper One Percent's choices.

[closeupready]

2. Wow, that's a lot of Illinoisans on food stamps - about 25% of the state's population.

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