And we thought last month's delayed foodstamp data [3]was bad. The just reported foodstamp number for September was a doozy, with 607,544 new Americans becoming eligible for foodstamps, as a record 47.7 million Americans are now living in poverty at least according to the USDA. The monthly increase was the highest since May 2011, and with August's 421K new impoverished America, over 1 million Americans made the EBT card their new best friend. It is unclear just which atmospheric phenomenon will get the blame for this unprecedented surge in poverty, which comes at a time when the pre-election economic data euphoria was adamant that the US economy was on an escape velocity to utopia. Instead what we do know is that in August and September, over three times as many foodstamp recipients were add to the economy as jobs (324,000). We also know that with the imminent impact of Sandy, which will send foodstamp recipients soaring, it is now looking quite possible that the US may end 2012 with just over a mindboggling 50 million Americans living in absolute poverty and collecting the $134.29 average monthly benefit per person, instead of working. Welcome to the recovery indeed.
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Iceland sent their bankers to jail, prosecuted for breaking laws.
ReplyDeleteBankers here steal billions of dollars, and the worst that happens is a settlement with the company that pales in comparison to their social costs and illicit gains. Individuals walk away without any penalties. The Justice Department considers these types of violations "too complicated" to prosecute.
When are you guys going to wake up to what the system is doing to us all?