[lbo-talk] Food stamps

[Joanna]

The quotes from former "middle class" people seem to suggest that they 
still need to differentiate themselves from the lazy people on food 
stamps. Interesting.

"A recent study by Mark R. Rank 
<http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/FACULTY/FULLTIME/Pages/MarkRank.aspx>, a 
professor at Washington University 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/washington_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org> 
in St. Louis, startled some policy makers in finding that half of 
Americans receive food stamps, at least briefly, by the time they turn 
20. Among black children, the figure was 90 percent."

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html

Joanna