A record number of Americans -- 46.7 million, or nearly one in seven
-- now use the food stamp program, according to the Department of
Agriculture.
The annual cost of SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as the food stamp program is officially known) hit $72 billion last year, up from $30 billion four years earlier.
SNAP's swelling size and cost have earned it fresh scrutiny from critics, who say SNAP is making two different constituencies fat -- big corporations and the poor -- the first, figuratively; the second, literally.
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The annual cost of SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as the food stamp program is officially known) hit $72 billion last year, up from $30 billion four years earlier.
SNAP's swelling size and cost have earned it fresh scrutiny from critics, who say SNAP is making two different constituencies fat -- big corporations and the poor -- the first, figuratively; the second, literally.
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