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Albany, NY - Hard Economic Times Puts Nearly 1 Million NYC Households On Food Stamps |
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Jul 23, 2008 at 04:19 PM
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Records and interviews show 1.8 million New Yorkers get help from food stamps to pay for basic groceries. That's up by 30,000 adults and children over the last two years and an increase of more than 500,000 since 2001.
In addition to the economic pressures driving up enrollment, the state has worked over the past five years to make it easier for working poor families to apply for the program, which can provide $200 a month for groceries.
More than 60% of recipients are in New York City.
The state's population is just more than 19 million, with about 8 million in New York City.
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Jul 23, 2008 at 06:15 PM Shulem Says:
If New York State has 19.5 million people and New York City has 8.2 million, why are 60% of the recipients in NYC and not 40% or less since this is where jobs are.
The answer is NYC is full of no good Liberals and Democrats who want people to be on Welfare so they can control them, that's why it's so easy to get this chazerai here.Unfortunatel inz haimishe have also joined this chazerai fest
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Jul 24, 2008 at 12:58 AM anonymous Says:
you happened to hit it on the button