Who Uses Food Stamps? Millions of Children
Nearly two thirds of food stamp expenditures go to children, the elderly, and the disabled. The other third goes mostly to the working poor, many of whom are people trapped in jobs that don’t provide a liveable wage.
Tens of millions of American children are among the recipients of food stamps, according to a new report that casts light on who benefits from the program that has been the subject of heated political debate.
The annual report from the United States Department of Agriculture showed that about 45 percent of food stamp benefits went to children under 18, totaling about 20 million youngsters. Nine percent of recipients were age 60 or older, and nearly 10 percent were disabled adults who were under 60, according to the analysis of food stamp usage for the fiscal year that ended in September 2012.
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