Record 42 M on Food Stamps This Thanksgiving

NEWSMAX: …. This Thanksgiving, 42.2 million Americans will be on food stamps – the Economic Policy Institute reports – or about as many people living in California and Connecticut combined, according to U.S. News & World Report.

And a report by the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit government watchdog group, said that its Food Stamp Challenge program estimates that a person receiving such aid has a budget of about $1.25 per person, per meal…

In other words, a family on food stamps must buy an entire meal for each person for less than the average cost of a cup of coffee, U.S. News reports…  (more)

EDITOR: From the above, we deduce the editors of  conservative NewsMax have entered into the Thanksgiving holiday spirit.    May we all be thankful for our blessings.

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