Editor’s Note: As we reported yesterday, deliberate mass recruitment into welfare, including ads targeting illegal aliens, has been going on for years.
Elizabeth Harrington
Washington Free Beacon
October 17, 2013
Food stamps are the most inefficient, vastly expanding social welfare program in the country, according to a new study.
Forty-seven million people participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, and costs have increased over 358 percent since 2000.
The increase in recent years cannot be attributed to the economic recession, according to Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, but lax eligibility requirements and an aggressive campaign by governments to boost their rolls.
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