Food stamp recipients scramble for food

[katty]

more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24670991/

(wonder if bush talks to god, prays on this situation?)

Food stamp recipients scramble for food
Amount not enough to cover rising costs of staples; more relaying on aid

updated 2 hours, 12 minutes ago

CHICAGO - Danielle Brown stands outside a South Side market at midnight, braving the spring chill for her first chance to buy groceries since her food stamps ran out nearly two weeks ago.

For days, Brown said, she has been turning cans of "whatever we got in the cabinet" into breakfast, lunch and dinner for her children, ages 1 and 3.

"Ain't got no food left, the kids are probably hungry," said Brown, a 23-year-old single mother who relies heavily on her $312 monthly allotment of food stamps — a ration adjusted just once a year, in October.