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Archive record · Economy

Working poor now largest group receiving food stamp benefits

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This page was published on January 27, 2014 by the earlier site that used this domain, which is no longer online. We are a different, independent publication. This note describes the old page so that links to it still lead somewhere useful. We don’t reproduce its text.

Original date
January 27, 2014
Headline
Working poor now largest group receiving food stamp benefits (reconstructed from the page address)

Context

A 2014 story about who receives SNAP benefits, linked from blogs explaining the U.S. benefits system to readers abroad. For current eligibility rules and data on who participates, see our SNAP explainer.

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