(The Center Square) – Despite posting the lowest unemployment rate in at least 46 years, the state of California had more people on the federal food stamp program in 2022 than ever.
California’s participation in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 2022 peaked at 4.9 million people as of July and then dropped to 4.6 million in August, the most recent month data is available from the federal government.
By comparison, California’s highest participation on SNAP in 2020 was 4.8 million people in June 2020. But California was under a shelter-in-place order from March through June 2020 and many businesses were ordered closed in 2020. The state’s unemployment rate during the pandemic peaked at 16.1% as of May 2020.
California’s unemployment rate was 3.8% as of September 2022, the lowest as far back as 1976, when online data is available.
California has approved funding in the 2022-23 budget to allow undocumented immigrants ages 55 and over to get food assistance under the state-funded California Food Assistance Program, which is separate from the federally-funded SNAP program.
California has given extra SNAP money to recipients due to COVID-19. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in October that the COVID-19 state of emergency would end Feb. 28, 2023. The per-person cost of the SNAP program has increased from $123.22 per month in March 2020 before the state of emergency declaration to $277.12 as of August 2022.
That $277.12 August 2022 benefit is the state’s highest ever for the federal SNAP program.
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Wow food stamps, Guaranteed income , welfare ,public housing and section 8 . Is there anything else free California can give out
“…The per-person cost of the SNAP program has increased from $123.22 per month in March 2020 before the state of emergency declaration to $277.12 as of August 2022…” Taken from above Article.
“…That $277.12 August 2022 benefit is the state’s highest ever for the federal SNAP program…”
COME TO AMERICA, IMMIGRANTS, IT’s FREE!
Well, Free to THEM at least..
WE americans have to suffer, to pay for it all.
AND one wonders, WHY BOTHER WORKING anymore in CA?
“…ltuser November 28, 2022
AND one wonders, WHY BOTHER WORKING anymore in CA?
” …AND one wonders, WHY BOTHER WORKING anymore…”
Frederic Bastian, Page # 30 in ” THE LAW, SAYS, ” You say; ” There are persons who have no money,” and you turn to the law. But the law is not a beast that fills itself with milk. Nor are the lacteal veins of the law supplied with milk from a source outside the society, nothing can enter the public treasure for the benefit of one citizen or one class unless other citizens and other classes have been forced to send it in. If every person draws from the treasure the amount that he has put in it, it is true that the law plungers nobody…The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder…”Welfare,” given to immigrants, is Legal Plunder…
Theft by any other name..