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Oklahoma's food stamp growth called unprecedented

BY BARBARA HOBEROCK - Tulsa World    Comments Comment on this article1
Published: October 10, 2009

About 15 percent of all Oklahomans and more than 25 percent of children received food stamps in September, according to information released Friday.

The Department of Human Services reported that 11,000 people were added to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in September, bringing the end-of-the-month total to 535,880 people.

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Nutrition Assistance Program recipients, monthly average by fiscal year:


2005: 421,442


2006: 433,372


2007: 423,084


2008: 415,397


2009: 445,364

Source: Oklahoma Department of Human Services

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The levels of food stamp participation are up more than 25 percent and almost 110,000 people from September 2008, officials said.

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Where are the jobs right to work was supposed to bring us? Oh yea we are in this created recession however good old Devon is building a nice fancy building, OKC is gearing up for more taxes with MAPS, unemployment is high, most of our manufacturing has been shipped out of country, cap and trade is going to sky rocket utility prices while those countries like China which does most of our manufacturing are thumbing their noses at cap and trade. No wonder we have all of these programs increasing. A very few are profiting from this misery and its really time to expose the minions behind the curtain as its not going to get better because THEY do not want it to.
Terry, Norman - Oct 10, 2009 at 11:58 am

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