{"id":11619,"date":"2012-11-20T16:53:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T00:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=11619"},"modified":"2012-11-20T16:53:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T00:53:18","slug":"more-americans-will-use-food-stamps-for-thanksgiving-this-year-than-ever-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/more-americans-will-use-food-stamps-for-thanksgiving-this-year-than-ever-before\/","title":{"rendered":"More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many people now on foodstamps voted for the Emperor?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newt was right!<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WTTACbaEJpQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"obama food stamp president\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.freedomsphoenix.com\/Uploads\/Graphics\/171\/05\/171-0504044326-Dollar-obama-food-stamps.jpg?resize=528%2C229\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"229\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2012\/11\/20\/more-americans-will-use-food-stamps-for-thanksgiving-this-year-than-ever-before\">by Elizabeth Flock | USNews<\/a><br \/>\nMore Americans will use food stamps to buy their Thanksgiving dinner this year than ever before, according to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/reporting.sunlightfoundation.com\/2012\/farm-bill-thanksgiving\/\">report<\/a> from the nonprofit government watchdog group The Sunlight Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Food Stamp Challenge, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodstamped.com\/get-involved\/take-the-challenge\">challenges<\/a> higher-income families to live as if they are on food stamps, estimates that a person on food stamps has a budget of about $1.25 per meal. In other words, a family on food stamps must buy an entire meal per person for less than the cost of an average cup of coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Usage of food stamps among low and no-income families has spiked since the collapse of the U.S. financial system four years ago. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, average participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamp program, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/pd\/SNAPsummary.htm\">increased<\/a> 70 percent since 2007. And economists have warned that usage of food stamps won&#8217;t go down until unemployment improves. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2012\/11\/20\/more-americans-will-use-food-stamps-for-thanksgiving-this-year-than-ever-before\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many people now on foodstamps voted for the Emperor? Newt was right! &#8230;.. by Elizabeth Flock | USNews More Americans will use food stamps to buy their Thanksgiving dinner this year than ever before,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[9],"tags":[21765,5715,21764,1549,14590],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}