Food Stamp Usage Has Fallen Every Month of Trump Presidency

I know Breitbart wants this to seem like something Trump has accomplished, but statistics can be used any way you chose. During the last year of Obama’s presidency 2.2 million people went off food stamps. So it is just continuing the existing trend.

Via Breitbart

Food stamp usage has declined every month since President Trump took office in January, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics on food stamp enrollment.

Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) dropped to 41,310,785 in June 2017, the latest data available from the USDA, from 42,691,363 in January 2017.

Food stamp usage has been on a steady decline since Donald Trump began his presidency in January 2017, with the latest data showing that SNAP enrollment decreased by more than 1.3 million, or 3.23 percent, since the beginning of his term in office.

 
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A closer look at the data shows that food stamp usage has been consistently decreasing each month since January 2017.

Here is the breakdown of how many people dropped off the food stamp rolls each month of 2017:

  • January to February- 408,956
  • February to March- 95,152
  • March to April- 521,295
  • April to May- 176,527
  • May to June- 178,648

The most significant drops in enrollment took place from January to February and March to April.

The two months where SNAP participation dropped the most can be attributed to states that started reimplementing work requirements to receive food stamps around that time.

Georgia, for example, expanded work requirements in 21 more counties that went into effect starting April 1, 2017. The state began implementing work requirements in a handful of counties in January 2016.

Alabama fully implemented work requirements in all of its counties by January 2017.

Many policies at the federal level have also contributed to the decline in food stamp enrollment overall.

Trump’s 2018 budget proposal proposed cuts to SNAP, and suggested that states match up to 20 percent of federal money allotted for the food stamp program.

The president also called for states to expand work requirements for able-bodied adults receiving food stamps if they have not already done so. Some federal lawmakers are crafting legislation to implement this policy nationwide, along with time limits on how long food stamp recipients can receive benefits.

Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown has also indirectly affected food stamp enrollment. Many immigrants, both legal and illegal, canceled their food stamps over fears they might be denied citizenship or deported.

Food stamp participation on average in 2017 has dropped to its lowest level since 2010, and the steady decrease in SNAP enrollment shows this trend has no signs of stopping.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that this downward trend will continue through the next decade, with food stamp enrollment dropping 1 to 2 percent each year. By 2027, CBO estimates that 32.5 million people would be receiving food stamps.

 

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BSHJ
BSHJ

It must be ’cause employment is so good these days….

Nurse Ratched
Nurse Ratched

Not just to benefit politicians. Don’t forget Wal-Mart and Pepsi co. and Monsanto and all the other corps that need idiotic land whales shoving gmo- enriched hfcs into their pie holes every waking minute. How else to get rid of all that industrial “food”??

Anonymous
Anonymous

Since I don’t see the multitude of obese getting any thinner, I doubt that this is having any effect on those that demand them as their way of life.

As for the Obama unemployed going back to work at new jobs so they no longer need them, I doubt many of them are at all unhappy about it.

Iconoclast421
Iconoclast421

There isnt much pratical difference between 41 and 43 million. Especially when that difference has been mostly bought by $3 trillion a year in money printing. It basically costs one yacht for every person that goes off food stamps. And the rest of us pay for it with our soon to be 5 digit healthcare deductible.

LetsPlay
LetsPlay

This article started with the presumed intent of saying that SNAP recipients were declining even before Trump took office and therefore should not be credited for the decline. I was looking for the reason why a decline would start in the Obozo years. That States would start implementing work requirements even while Obozo was prez is puzzling because they would still be open to law suits, protests, etc., all of which apparently did not happen. So … what happened? Or is this a case of a teaser title so get readers.

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