Food Stamp Spending and Enrollment Double in Five Years
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Real Clear Policy
Food Stamp Spending and Enrollment Double in Five Years
This excerpt originally appeared in Real Clear Policy on June 26, 2012.
The Senate has just approved the 2012 Farm Bill, which will cost nearly $1 trillion over ten years. It’s a little-known fact about the bill that 80 percent of it is spent on the food-stamps program, renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
