NYT Story on the U.S. Food Stamps Program

Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff:

With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. […]

From the ailing resorts of the Florida Keys to Alaskan villages along the Bering Sea, the program is now expanding at a pace of about 20,000 people a day.

★ Sunday, 29 November 2009