(The figures are from May, the most recent available).
No fair clicking until you make your answer.
We discussed this in yesterday’s Adult Sunday school–KSH.
(The figures are from May, the most recent available).
No fair clicking until you make your answer.
We discussed this in yesterday’s Adult Sunday school–KSH.
For the record..I originally typed in 36 but, for some reason, it only came out wrong. I attribute my accuracy to my wife’s working in a title 1 school district. It’s very sad.
You mean what percentage are on “stimulus,” according to the administration?
Nationally food stamp use is at a record high, up 12% from last year; its 34% higher than two years ago.
15%?
That’s very sad. We know we’ll always have the poor with us, but that doesn’t release us from doing what we can to help them.
I guess 25%.
18 to 20%
Hmm. I travel through Alabama a fair bit and based my numbers on about 40% of the blacks — very rural and often very poor — and about 15% of the whites. The actual 868 K number is (or [i]was[/i] 17% of the population. Because of the rural poverty I’ve seen there I was also assuming a 25% increase over the national percentage.
I am aware of no event in Alabama that would have led to a doubling of SNAP recipients in a one-month period, and must therefore conclude the May number is an aberration of some sort.
In particular I suggest there was a ~1% actual increase to about 875 or 880 K, and that it was double-reported, the new number being 202% of the old.