1 in 8 Wisconsinites Now on Food Stamps

More than one in eight, or 13 percent, of all Wisconsin residents are on food stamps.
With nearly 750,000 receiving FoodShare benefits, Wisconsin has seen a 24 percent increase in the number of food stamp recipients in the last year.

“The explosion in the growth of FoodShare recipients demonstrates again how so many families in Wisconsin are struggling in this economy,” said State Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills). Nearly three quarters of a million Wisconsin residents participated in the FoodShare program in July, an increase of 144,760 from the same month last year an a 12,158 jump from June. Darling said the startling revelation that one in eight Wisconsinites receive food stamps should shock elected officials into action.

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