SNAP/Food Stamps Has Been Greatest Responder to Recession/Poverty

A recent post on the Demos blog does a great job at highlighting SNAP's successful response to the recession by keeping millions of Americans out of poverty.

Between 2000 and 2009, the program reduced the poverty rate by an estimated 4.4 percent. Since the Great Recession, food stamps have kept a million formerly income stable Americans from falling into poverty. And, most staggering of all, the Census numbers suggest that food stamps have kept 2%, or 6 million, of Americans from falling into poverty.

Click here to read the full post. It is full of great information.