109,930,090 Americans participated in overlapping programs
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
May 20, 2015 3:02 pm
The federal government spent $100 billion providing food assistance to Americans last year, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The lion’s share of spending comes from the food stamp program, which gave benefits to an average 46 million Americans in 2014, at a cost of $74.6 billion, according to atestimony from the GAO’s Director of Education, Workforce, and Income Security Kay E. Brown before the House Subcommittee on Nutrition Wednesday.
The national school lunch program was second, costing $11.3 billion, followed by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) at $7.1 billion.
Other spending included $1.9 billion for nutrition assistance for Puerto Rico, and $10.7 million for the “Special Milk Program.”
https://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spent-100-billion-on-food-assistance-last-year/
This looks like the ugly sign over by Graydon. Maybe Paulie V will have a campaign slogan on that soon, too.