Chart of the Week: Leading Poverty Indicator

Food stamp usage has increased by about 10 million people in two years. The program now feeds 1 in 8 Americans and 1 in 4 American children. See this interactive chart that shows food stamp usage by county:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/28/us/20091128-foodstamps.html

A recent study by a Washington University professor found that half of Americans receive food stamps, at least briefly, by the time they turn 20. Among black children, the figure was 90%. Obviously, the solution to this shocking amount of hunger is to send all those using food stamps to South Carolina where Lt. Gov.Andre Bauer(R) would have them sterilized.