Inside Out TV: '47 Million Americans on Food Stamps'

Source:Inside Out TV- from the Inside Out piece on Food Stamps.

"There are currently 47 million Americans who turn to food stamps to help make ends meet. The program was just cut by $5 billion on November 1 and more cuts are expected. 

November 1st marked the end of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that was passed in 2009 to temporarily expand the SNAP or food stamp program in the US following the economic recession." 

From Inside Out TV

If you want to know how bad the Great Recession was and still is to a certain extent: it's officially over, but we haven't fully recovered from it. Middle class people as of 2008 are now living in poverty, collecting things like long-term Unemployment Insurance, Medicaid, perhaps seeking early retirement income from Social Security, Food Assistance, some of these people have gone back to work but are making maybe half of what they use to, or not even that.