Illinois Tops Nation in Growth of Food Stamp Recipients

by Todd Huston

by Warner Todd Huston30 May 2013, 12:35 PM PDTpost a comment

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 15.7 percent of the Land of Lincoln's population are now enrolled in the food stamp program.

As Joe Schoffstall points out: "The USDA's latest data shows 2,023,635 Illinoisans were enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in February 2013. In February of 2012, 1,831,898 people took part in the program. That's an increase of 10.5 percent in just one year."

"Illinois was the only state to see a double-digit increase of the number of residents enrolled in the SNAP program from the same time period last year."

Schoffstall further notes that, "Illinois was the only state to see a double-digit increase of the number of residents enrolled in the SNAP program from the same time period last year."

This should come as no surprise. Illinois consistently ranks in the bottom with the worst states in nearly every metric used to measure a successful state.

Here are just a few of the "low lights" of Illinois' standing among the states:

In light of all this, the fact that Illinois has an increasing number of its citizens on food stamps should not come as a shock to anyone.

Illinois Tops Nation in Growth of Food Stamp Recipients
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/29/Illinois-Tops-Nation-in-Growth-of-Food-Stamp-Recipients

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