{"id":17235,"date":"2010-01-12T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/more_families_relying_on_food_stamps_to_feed_their_kids\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:22:15","slug":"more_families_relying_on_food_stamps_to_feed_their_kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17235","title":{"rendered":"More families relying on food stamps to feed their kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has more poor children now than it did a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>As recession-hammered families increase, more are using food stamps to feed their kids, according to a study by the Brookings Institution and First Focus, a bipartisan child advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are a really good barometer, a kind of economic-needs test,&#8221; said Mark R. Rank, an expert on social welfare programs at Washington University in St. Louis. &#8220;If you&#8217;re receiving food stamps and you&#8217;re a child, by definition, you&#8217;re in poverty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-na-food-stamps12-2010jan12,0,1889154.story\" title>Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has more poor children now than it did a year ago. As recession-hammered families increase, more are using food stamps to feed their kids, according to a study by the Brookings Institution and First Focus, a bipartisan<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17235\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,101,100,98,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-children","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-marriage-family","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}