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    USA becomes Food Stamp Nation but is it sustainable?

    By Kristina Cooke | Reuters – 3 hrs ago

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Genna Saucedo supervises cashiers at a Wal-Mart in Pico Rivera, California, but her wages aren't enough to feed herself and her 12-year-old son.

    Saucedo, who earns $9.70 an hour for about 26 hours a week and lives with her mother, is one of the many Americans who survive because of government handouts in what has rapidly become a food stamp nation.

    Altogether, there are now almost 46 million people in the United States on food stamps, roughly 15 percent of the population. That's an increase of 74 percent since 2007, just before the financial crisis and a deep recession led to mass job losses.

    At the same time, the cost doubled to reach $68 billion in 2010 -- more than a third of the amount the U.S. government received in corporate income tax last year -- which means the program has started to attract the attention of some Republican lawmakers looking for ways to cut the nation's budget deficit.

    While there are clearly some cases of abuse by people who claim food stamps but don't really need them, for many Americans like Saucedo there is little current alternative if they are to put food on the table while paying rent and utility bills. "It's kind of sad that even though I'm working that I need to have government assistance. I have asked them to please put me on full-time so I can have benefits," said the 32-year-old.

    She's worked at Wal-Mart for nine months, and applied for food stamps as soon as her probation ended. She said plenty of her colleagues are in the same situation.

    So are her customers. Bill Simon, head of Wal-Mart's U.S. operations, told a conference call last Tuesday that the company had seen an increase in the number of shoppers relying on government assistance for food.

    About forty percent of food stamp recipients are, like Saucedo, in households in which at least one member of the family earns wages. Many more could be eligible: the government estimates one in three who could be on the program are not. "If they're working, they often think they can't get help. But people can't support their families on $10, $11, $12 an hour jobs, especially when you add transport, clothes, rent." said Carolyn McLaughlin, executive director of BronxWorks, a social services organization in New York.

    The maximum amount a family of four can receive in food stamps is $668 a month. They can only be used to buy food -- though not hot food -- and for plants and seeds to grow food.

    Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all made efforts to raise awareness about the program and remove the stigma associated with it.

    In 2004, paper coupons were replaced with cards similar to debit cards onto which benefits can be loaded. In 2008 they were renamed Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits though most people still call them food stamps.

    Despite the bipartisan support for the program in the past, some of the recent political rhetoric has food stamp advocates worried.

    Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich last year derided Democrats as "the party of food stamps". And Republican leaders in the House of Representatives propose changing the program so that the funding is through a "block grant" to the states, rather than allowing it to grow automatically when needed due to an emergency, such as a natural disaster or economic crisis.

    In some parts of the country, shoppers using food stamps have almost become the norm. In May 2011, a third of all people in Alabama were on food stamps -- though part of that was because of emergency assistance after communities were destroyed by a series of destructive tornadoes. Washington D.C., Mississippi, New Mexico, Oregon and Tennessee all had about a fifth of their population on food stamps that month. "Food stamps have traditionally been insulated from politics," said Parke Wilde, professor of U.S. food policy at Tufts University. "But as you look over the current fiscally conservative proposals, the question is, has something fundamentally changed?"

    A LOW WAGE SUPPORT PROGRAM

    Over the past 20 years, the characteristics of the program's recipients have changed. In 1989, a higher percentage were on benefits than working, but as of 2009 a higher percentage had earned income. "SNAP is increasingly work support," said Ed Bolen, an analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

    And that's only likely to get worse: So far in the recovery, jobs growth has been concentrated in lower-wage occupations, with minimal growth in middle-income wages as many higher-paid blue collar jobs have disappeared.

    And 6 percent of the 72.9 million Americans paid by the hour received wages at or below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour in 2010. That's up from 4.9 percent in 2009, and 3 percent in 2002, according to government data.

    Bolen said just based on income, minimum wage single parents are almost always eligible for food stamps. "This becomes an implicit subsidy for low-wage jobs and in terms of incentives for higher wage job creation that really is not a good thing," said Arindrajit Dube, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose research shows raising the minimum wage would spur economic activity.

    Until a couple of weeks ago Tashawna Green, 21, from Queens Village, New York, worked 25 hours a week at an $8.08 hourly rate at retailer Target. She is on food stamps, and says a good number of her former colleagues are too. "It's a good thing that the government helps, but if employers paid enough and gave enough hours, then we wouldn't need to be on food stamps," said Green, who has a six-year-old daughter.

    Of course, with an unemployment rate over 9 percent, some argue that those with any job at all are lucky. Millions of Americans whose unemployment benefits have expired have to exist only on food stamps and other government aid, such as Medicaid healthcare support.

    And even with unemployment benefits, said Jessica King, 25, from Portland, Oregon, her family juggles bills to ensure the electricity stays on. They are also selling some belongings on Craigslist to raise funds.

    King's husband Stephen, 30, an electronics assembly worker, lost his job two months ago when she was seven months pregnant with their second child. It was the third time he has been laid off since 2008.

    She said she was reluctant, initially, to go on food stamps. "I felt the way our national debt was going I didn't want to be part of the problem," said King, who used to work as a cook at a faith-based non-profit organization. "But I didn't know what else to do and I got to a point where I swallowed my pride and decided to do what was best for my daughter."

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    [b]Welfare State Gone Wild
    Woman ‘encouraged husband to have sex with 12-year-old girl so that she would get pregnant and they could claim more benefits’

    This article is a reprint by PAUL THOMPSON, Mail Online published 8/23/2011[/i]

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1WSGIO5iZ

    A woman encouraged her husband to have sex with a 12-year-old girl so that she would get pregnant and they could claim extra cash benefits. Alicia Bouchard even sat and watched while her 26-year-old husband had sex with the underage girl at their Florida home. According to an arrest warrant, the 41-year-old wanted the girl to fall pregnant so that she and her husband would have extra income from state benefits.

    Bouchard is alleged to have actively encouraged her husband to sleep with the girl who had been staying at their home in Jackson County, Florida. The sex and benefits scam began after the girl, who has not been named, told Bouchard that she was sexually active.

    Mrs Bouchard is alleged to have persuaded her to sleep with her husband Matt, telling her that ‘the worse that could happen is you would get pregnant’.

    Her husband told authorities after his arrest on under age sex charges that it was his wife’s goal that a pregnancy would lead to more income for the household. Police began investigating the Bouchard’s after they received a complaint that the girl was being sexually abused. The arrest report does not reveal how the 12-year-old girl came to live with the married couple, but is believed to be a family friend.

    Mr Bouchard was arrested on sex abuse charges last October and has been held in jail ever since. His wife’s involvement began apparent went investigators talked to the 12-year-old girl after she was placed in a shelter.

    Investigators also obtained a letter Mrs. Bouchard sent to the girl after she was placed in a shelter. In the letter, she apologised to the girl for forcing her to watch her and her husband have sex and also said it was a mistake to watch her husband have sex with the 12-year-old victim. She wrote she was ‘dang sure [she] should not have allowed [her] to have sex with Matt.”.

    Bouchard was booked into jail on charges of being a principal to sexual battery, soliciting sexual activity with a child and principal to child abuse. Her bond has been set at $70,000.





    Arrested: Alicia Bouchard allegedly encouraged her husband Matthew Bouchard to have sex with a 12-year-old girl in the hope that she would get pregnant
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    Generations of ignorance are nurtured by behavior like this. In my state, young girls get pregnant intentionally and then the state provides them with free housing, food, and other assistance. Some of these girls will then have additional children in order to increase the amount of assistance that they receive monthly. They do this, because it has become on option. Sadly some of these girls come from broken homes or simply want to move out into a place of their own without following the rules from their parents. Sadly no one has taught them to become self sufficient and work for what they get in life; "welfare" is considered a "career option" for some. When they had to demolish some of the Public Housing in NOLA after Katrina due to water damage, mold, and electrical problems.... whole groups protested because it was their "heritage"... generations had grown up in that "community". Public Dole was not supposed to be a generational solution; it was intended as a safety net, too many have turned it into a hammock and therefore a lifestyle.
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    Mich. governor signs 48-month welfare limit
    By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN - Associated Press | AP – 1 hr 25 mins ago


    LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed into law a stricter, four-year lifetime limit on cash welfare benefits, prompting advocates for the poor to warn that tens of thousands of residents will find themselves without cash assistance on Oct. 1. Michigan's first-year Republican chief executive said the state will offer exemptions to the limit for those with a disability who can't work, those who care for a disabled spouse or child and those who are 65 or older and don't qualify for Social Security benefits or receive very low benefits.

    Some recipients who are the victims of domestic violence also may be temporarily exempted.

    "We are returning cash assistance to its original intent as a transitional program to help families while they work toward self-sufficiency," Snyder said in a statement. He noted that the state still will help the poor by offering food stamps, health care coverage through Medicaid, child care and emergency services.

    Then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, signed a bill that created a four-year limit starting in 2007. But that law exempted many welfare recipients, including those whose caseworkers said they were making progress toward finding employment. The 2010 election of Snyder and the simultaneous Republican takeover of the Michigan House gave the GOP a free hand to set its own course on public assistance.

    The change gives Michigan the Midwest's toughest welfare time limit, according to a survey by The Detroit News. It said there are five-year limits in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin. Indiana has a two-year limit for adults — but none for children.

    Gilda Jacobs of the Michigan League for Human Services said she expects about 41,000 people to lose their cash assistance payments on Oct. 1 when the state's new budget year begins. That includes 29,700 children, according to the Michigan Department of Human Services. "We're very, very concerned," Jacobs said. "As the days go by, new people will be meeting the 48-month limit. ... More will be falling off that cliff."

    The new law will reduce the number of children and adults receiving cash assistance by nearly a fifth, from more than 221,000 to around 180,000. Enforcing a four-year limit will save the state more than $60 million annually, according to a House Fiscal Agency analysis.

    Jacobs said it's hard to see how 11,000 adults will find a job when Michigan's July unemployment rate was 10.9 percent, tied with South Carolina for third-highest in the nation. "We still have to preserve a safety net for people who, through no fault of their own, can't find a job," she said, noting that most cash assistance goes to help poor residents pay their rent. "There's obviously a lot of anxiety out there. Folks aren't sure exactly what this means to them."

    State officials say they're working with nonprofit organizations to direct welfare recipients to other services and provide a "soft landing" as they lose benefits. Recipients will be connected with other resources, given housing and job placement assistance for up to three months beyond October and mentored by trained job navigators. "Michigan continues to face financial challenges, and the fiscal reality is that we cannot afford to provide lifetime cash assistance to recipients who are able to work," Health and Human Services director Maura Corrigan said in a statement. "Enforcing lifetime limits for cash assistance ensures that available funds are targeted toward those recipients who need a helping hand while they find employment."

    Michigan ranked 38th in child poverty for 2009, defined as income below $21,756 for a family of two adults and two children. About 23 percent of Michigan's children lived in poverty in 2009, compared with 20 percent nationally. In 2000, only 14 percent of Michigan children lived in poverty. The average age of a child in a family receiving cash assistance is around 7 years old.

    Snyder, a Republican, has said reducing the number of children living in poverty is a priority of his administration.

    The Michigan Catholic Conference has objected to the four-year limit. The conference said the effect will be felt for years by society and by children who lose services.

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    Kathy Barks Hoffman can be reached at http://twitter.com/kathybhoffman.

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    Michigan changing food stamp eligibility rules
    By TIM MARTIN - Associated Press | AP – 20 hrs ago


    LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An undetermined number of Michigan's nearly 2 million food assistance recipients will lose the help under new eligibility requirements the state will begin using in October.

    Michigan has determined food assistance eligibility based only on income for roughly a decade. A new policy will include a review of certain financial assets starting Oct 1. The requirements will affect new applicants right away and existing recipients when their cases come up for review, which typically happens once every six months.

    Those with assets of more than $5,000 in bank accounts or some types of property would no longer be eligible for food assistance. Other assets that would count against the cap include vehicles with market values of more than $15,000 and second homes, depending on how much is owed on the properties.

    Some assets, such as primary residences and 401k accounts, would not be considered for determining food assistance eligibility.

    The Michigan League for Human Services says the policies will make it harder for those who are out of work or underemployed to qualify for the assistance. The organization says need is increasing as the state's unemployment rate rose to 11.2 percent in August, the third-highest rate in the nation and up from 10.2 percent in April.

    "This is a hard time in Michigan for many families who are transitioning from middle-class jobs to lower-paid jobs and part-time work," Karen Holcomb-Merrill, the organization's policy director, said in a statement. "We should be enacting policies that encourage savings. This may have the opposite effect."

    Most states have moved in recent years to get rid of asset tests for food assistance recipients, according to the Michigan League for Human Services report.

    More than 1.9 million Michigan residents — nearly 20 percent of the state's population — is covered by the food assistance program. The number of recipients has increased by more than 40 percent since late 2008.

    Gov. Rick Snyder's administration has moved to limit eligibility since taking over state government agencies in January. The state removed about 30,000 college students from its food assistance program earlier this year when it began enforcing federal guidelines.

    "We have to make sure that we're serving the correct population, those that are truly in need," said Brian Rooney, a deputy director with the Michigan Department of Human Services. "We believe that the asset test will still cover those that are truly in need. "

    Michigan already has asset tests for receiving welfare cash benefits or Medicaid.

    State officials say it's hard to tell how many residents could lose food stamp assistance under the plan because the asset levels of many recipients are currently unknown.

    Food assistance benefits came under some scrutiny earlier this year when it was revealed a Michigan man had continued to get food aid from the state despite winning a $2 million lottery jackpot.

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    I live in Michigan, and it seems to me the only ones complaining the loudest are the ones defrauding the system...

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    They should do this on a Federal level. I work at a grocery store and I'll never forget the family that pulled up in a fairly new truck loaded up with 4-wheelers and came in to buy goodies with food stamps for a camping trip. I mean, really!!!!

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    I live in Wisconsin and get Social Security Disability and long term disability from my job. I have been told I can't get help because I make too much money. I am a single mother with 4 children to support and let me tell you, by the time all the bills are paid for the month, there is not alot left over for food or anything else that we may need. I do not drive a fancy car, own my own home or buy extravegant things...my car is 9 years old, I rent and shop at Walmart. I do not have a problem with anyone getting FS if they are truly used for what they are intended for. BUT, when I see people buying candy, chips, steaks, crablegs and things that normal hardworking people cannot afford, it really burns my #$%$!! It is sad that I have paid into the system for years and now that I am sick and cannnot work, I cannot get the help I need because I am over their limit by a couple of dollars. I was told to go to the food pantrys in my area....UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

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    Everyone that receives food stamps are not lazy bombs. I know someone that received their stamps for about a 1 and a half after she had her children. She found a job and has been working for 3 years without government assistance. She just needed transitional assistance until she got on her feet. Lifetime assistance is ridiculous unless you are disabled
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    I believe four years is enough time to get on your feet and find a job or go to school and get trained to do a job. Why don't they pay instead to send welfare recipients to school for job training. Thats an investment and will get them off welfare after they get a job.

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    Oregon Gets $5 Million Federal Bonus for Signing Up More Food Stamp ‘Clients’
    By Doug Powers • September 29, 2011 08:27 PM

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    “If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.” — Ronald Reagan
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    And if you want an absolute s*#tload of something, give bonuses on top of the subsidies.

    From Judicial Watch: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/20...ood-stamp-sign

    In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding food-stamp recipients to already bulging rolls.

    It’s part of the administration’s campaign to eradicate “food insecure households” by improving access and increasing participation in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Incidentally, the program was recently changed to SNAP to eliminate the stigma that comes with a name like food stamps. Just a few months ago the federal agency that administers the program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), launched a multi-million-dollar initiative to recruit more food-stamp participants even though the number of recipients has skyrocketed in the last few years.
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    Could this be why the number of food-stamp beneficiaries in Oregon has increased dramatically in the last few years? Since 2008 the state has seen a 60% boost in the number of food-stamp recipients, which means that more than 780,000 people (one out of five Oregonians) get groceries compliments of Uncle Sam.
    If that’s too hard to believe, check out the press release from the Oregon Department of Human Services announcing the $5 million bonus (PDF). http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/news/2011news/2011-0928.pdf

    The ODHS also wrote in the press release that earlier in the year the state received another federal award of $1.5 million for “making accurate payments of food stamp benefits to clients.” Does that simply mean they got another one and a half million bucks for “not screwing up”?

    I’m surprised the government’s now referring to those on food stamps as “clients” when “stimulus recipients” better reflects the current attitude.

    According to the state, one in five Oregonians is on food stamps. How much will the federal bonus be for making that two of every five? Maybe we’ll find out someday soon.

    http://michellemalkin.com/2011/09/29/oregon-food-stamp/
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    California to end food stamp fingerprinting
    By Greg Lucas | Reuters – 10 hrs ago


    SACRAMENTO, Calif (Reuters) - Low-income Californians will no longer need to be fingerprinted when they apply for food stamp assistance, under legislation signed into law on Thursday by Governor Jerry Brown. California was one of only three states that required such fingerprinting as a condition for receiving food subsidies. The practice, in effect in California for more than a decade, ends January 1 under the new law.

    The change is designed to increase the number of poor residents who can receive state-administered CalFresh benefits, up to $526 each month for a family of three to help put food on their table. Supporters of the bill said many among hard-to-reach eligible populations are fearful of the fingerprinting requirement, which was introduced as a way of curbing fraud. "(This bill) will help bring food to the nearly 7 million Californians who go hungry each and every day," said state Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, a Los Angeles Democrat who sponsored the legislation signed by the Democratic governor.

    1 In August, nearly 3.8 million Californians were receiving aid from CalFresh, according to the state Department of Social Services, which administers the program. This represents about 10 percent of the 37.3 million residents of California. Of the 3.8 million, 860,000 persons also were enrolled in CalWORKS, the state's welfare program. The remaining 2.9 million received no other form of financial assistance than state food stamps.

    Supporters of the new law hope it will encourage more seniors, in particular, to apply for help.

    CalFresh is paid for exclusively by the federal government, which has complained that California's fingerprinting policy discourages otherwise eligible persons from participating in the program. Fuentes says his bill will deliver $850 million more in federal benefits to low-income Californians. The federal government says that will in turn generate over $1.4 billion in increased economic activity statewide.

    Food stamps pay only for food for human consumption. Alcohol, tobacco, pet food and non-food items like household supplies are not covered. The federal program has been renamed SNAP, for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

    Texas also passed legislation this year ending its practice of fingerprinting SNAP applicants. Arizona and New York City continue to do so.

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    Criminals now need not fear getting free stuff.

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    Now, Mexico can move its entire nation into California to collect FREE welfare and food stamps, and can vote too. Great hah???

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    So stopping this will let 7 million more eat? What does having yourself fingerprinted have to do with not eating unless you're an illegal or a wanted criminal? If getting ink on your finger is keeping you from getting free eats, you can't possibly be too hungry.

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    What? In other words California will be helping to feed illegals and people with felony warrants. And California wonders why it is in the condition its in.

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    Are they STUPID! No wonder the States are broke. What a bunch of deadbeats. These people run our Governments that think like this. Pretty scary!

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    The subtext seems to be: some people who are here illegally are afraid to be printed, so we have to make it easier for them to break our laws.
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    Breaking: Gil Cedilo, the lawmaker who authored the "California Dream Act" - the $40 million tuition grant and financial aid bill for illegal aliens - minutes ago said that Gov. Jerry Brown has signed it. Now CA will be able to steal tens of millions from citizens to give to illegals. Brown signed the controversial bill in secret on a weekend during football games, with a midnight deadline looming, to try and hide this disgrace from taxpayers. California is truly lost.

    Read http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/cali...ator-says.html

    http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...n-welfare.html circa 2008
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    Ahhhh the "California Nightmare Act"..... I hope they keep that nightmare to themselves.
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