{"id":2893,"date":"2012-01-27T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2012-01-27T15:21:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:21:45","slug":"the-truth-behind-gingrichs-false-food-stamp-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/27\/the-truth-behind-gingrichs-false-food-stamp-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth behind Gingrich’s false food-stamp claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

INSTITUTE INDEX<\/strong>
\nInstitute for Southern Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Date on which Republican presidential candidate and former Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich, speaking during a debate in South Carolina, claimed that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history”: 1\/16\/2012<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Number of days later that the Gingrich campaign unveiled a TV ad making the same claim: 1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Number of people who have joined the food stamp program — known since 2008 as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — under President Obama: 14,200,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Number of people who became SNAP beneficiaries under President George W. Bush: 14,700,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Number of people added to the SNAP rolls in the 12 months before Obama took office in January 2009: 4,400,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Percentage by which that exceeds the number added in 2007, when the economic downturn began: 300<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Number by which the SNAP rolls declined in October 2011: 43,528<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Number of people receiving SNAP benefits, according to the latest figures available: 46,224,722<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Proportion of U.S. residents that represents: 1 in 7<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Proportion of residents receiving SNAP benefits in Mississippi, the state with the highest poverty rate: 1 in 5<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Under the economic stimulus bill President Obama signed in 2009, increase in monthly SNAP benefits for a family of four: $80<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Income limit for a family of four to be eligible for SNAP: $29,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Percent of SNAP beneficiaries who are white: 36<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Percent who are African-American: 22<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Percent who are Latino: 10<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Percent who are children: 47<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Percent who live in a household where someone has a job: 41<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Percent of SNAP households that also received cash welfare benefits in 1990: 42<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2010: 8<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

SNAP’s annual cost to taxpayers: $75,000,000,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Percentage by which that cost has increased since 2008: 200<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Value of economic activity generated for every $1 spent on SNAP benefits: $1.84<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Click on figure to go to source. To comment on this index, click here<\/a>. Image of Gingrich during the Jan. 16 GOP debate is a still from Fox News video via FactCheck.org<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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