Graph of the week: number of Americans receiving food stamps
from David Ruccio
The number of Americans receiving food stamps is now over 44 million, which is more than the entire populations of many large nations.
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Factoid: The population of the world’s 25th largest nation has 49,991,300; US: 309,975,000
Hmmmmm – let them eat food stamps?