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What the heck do Republicans do to make the administration of Food Stamps more expensive resulting in less help to citizens?
January 24, 2015
By Benjamin Landy
...But Romney (click here) is far from alone in his grandiose and off the mark allegations; just last week rival presidential candidate Newt Gingrich doubled down on his controversial comments tarring President Obama as a "food stamp president," who, the former House speaker proclaimed, has put more people on food stamps "than any president in American history." A recent USA Today fact check corrects that mistake: while the percentage of Americans on food stamps is at historic highs, fewer people have applied for SNAP under Obama than during George W. Bush's tenure, when 14.7 million joined the rolls. What's more, the current growth rate has been declining since the end of the recession in 2009, when there is a clear inflection point in the graph below.
