Another View: Food stamps a safety net for many (Hollister Free Lance)

Use of food stamps is soaring across the nation, and not just in urban pockets and rural backwaters where poverty has long been a way of life. The demand for food stamps is becoming common in the suburbs too, where the ranks of the needy have grown with the deepest recession since the Great Depression. In California, food stamp usage jumped 24 percent in the last 12 months. But it has grown even …

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