Saturday, July 02, 2011

SNAP

44,647,861 on food stamps. (Source.)

Sorry, it's not called food stamps any more. It's the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

You can get US population monthly estimates here. 2011 data was interpolated.


That's 14.3%. One in seven!!!

Nothing to see here folks, move along. It's not a depression.

SNAP!!!

2 comments:

Necropraxis said...

Kind of insane that it was 9% during the boom too (the 2007 side of that chart).

ShockingSchadenfreude said...

Boom ended in 2005 actually (which makes sense only in retrospect.)