Record Number of Americans on Food Stamps

While mainstream media whores celebrate their bogus and misleading US job loss and unemployment claims, for the first time more than 34 million Americans received food stamps in May. Enrollment surged by 2 percent to reach a record 34.4 million people, or one in nine Americans. This is the sixth month in a row that enrollment set a record. Every state recorded a gain, and Florida had the largest increase at 4.2 percent.

Food stamp enrollment

Month Total

May 34.409 million

April 33.758 million

March 33.157 million

February 32.556 million

January 32.205 million

December 2008 31.784 million

November 2008 31.097 million

October 2008 31.050 million

September 2008 31.586 million

Remember, more than 650,000 Americans will have used up all of their unemployment benefits by September, and the Labor Department doesn't track anyone who has moved beyond 26 weeks of unemployment in its weekly data on continuing claims. That means the government will report significant declines in continuing filers and use that to generate even more propaganda.