Food Stamp Spending and Enrollment Double in Five Years

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Food Stamp Spending and Enrollment Double in Five Years

Veronique de Rugy | Jun 26, 2012

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.