Obama’s plan to fundamentally transform America is working like clockwork:
WASHINGTON EXAMINER – This both due to the sluggish economic recovery and the expansion of eligibility rules for the program. The Obama administration has been particularly aggressive about getting people on the rolls, reports the Wall Street Journal:
The food-stamp rolls have swollen since 2008 and are projected to stay that way for years. In 2008, SNAP enrollment was 28.2 million. Unemployment peaked in October 2009 at 10% and was at 7.7% as of February, but SNAP kept growing.
The Congressional Budget Office predicts unemployment will drop to 5.6% by 2017 but that SNAP enrollment will drop slightly to 43.3 million people, down 4.5 million from the current level.
That makes it very different from the other big federal support program, unemployment insurance, which shrinks as the economy improves. Continued jobless claims dropped to 3.1 million in February after peaking at 6.6 million in May 2009.