Thread: Food stamp usage jumps

Obama's Stimulus plan is working...

Originally Posted by James48843

One out of four children now receiving "food stamps".

BY county map across the nation:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...oodstamps.html

James, you are a fact digging machine. Thanks

Are the immigrants: Mexico, Latin, & South Americans, are they counted in the Black population numbers?

Originally Posted by grandma

Are the immigrants: Mexico, Latin, & South Americans, are they counted in the Black population numbers?

I couldn't extrapolate that from the spreadsheet they made available. It seemed the spreadsheet was developed to just show black versus white.

The first line of the spreadsheet shows:
State County ----------------------Population Recipients PctOnFoodStamps PctOfChildrenOnFoodstamps PctOfBlacksOnFoodstamps PctOfWhitesOnFoodstamps Chg07to09
AK Aleutians East Borough --2816 -----------113-----------------------------4% --------------------13% ------------------------------------4% --------------------------------2% --------------------------27%


I don't think ALL ethnic groups were represented and this is a limited study with "implied" results. But then again, I'm just a well informed conservative... Could I be looking at it totally wrong?

Originally Posted by Frixxxx

I couldn't extrapolate that from the spreadsheet they made available. It seemed the spreadsheet was developed to just show black versus white. ...
But then again, I'm just a well informed conservative... Could I be looking at it totally wrong?

My suspicions would be that it is North European white vs any tint (but not tanned).