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Published: June 3, 2007
Could you live on $21 a week?
As food prices continue to rise, a group of state organizations is asking people to eat on a limited budget for at least a week this month to learn what it's like to be hungry.
In Oklahoma , the average food stamp recipient gets about $22.36 per person each week to buy groceries, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture . The monthly average number of Oklahomans receiving food stamps in 2006 was 435,000. The ...
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