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7 States With the Most People on Food Stamps
Wall Street Cheat Sheet ^ | 2/16/15 | Erika Rawes

Posted on 02/16/2015 12:23:49 PM PST by Kartographer

3. New Mexico

Number of food stamp recipients: 430,622 Percentage of the state’s population on food stamps: 20.65% Total cost of just these benefits alone (That is, how much do just the money on those EBT cards cost the state?): Around $53.12 million Cost of benefits alone per capita in this state: $25.47 per person

(Excerpt) Read more at wallstcheatsheet.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: foodstamps; stateslist
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Go to any Walmart Super Store the first of the month in New Mexico an the lines stretch to the back of the store with many having two or three baskets full of stuff.
1 posted on 02/16/2015 12:23:49 PM PST by Kartographer
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To: CedarDave; LegendHasIt; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; OneWingedShark; ...

New Mexico ping!


2 posted on 02/16/2015 12:24:13 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Obama: “ A food card in every wallet”


3 posted on 02/16/2015 12:26:20 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Kartographer

4 posted on 02/16/2015 12:26:44 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Kartographer

Why New Mexico... I just can’t put my finger on the reason...
/sarc


5 posted on 02/16/2015 12:27:21 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Kartographer
Well, somebody has got to be able to buy all the shrimp, lobster and primes cuts of steak which the rest of us can't afford.
6 posted on 02/16/2015 12:30:27 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: WKB; Black Agnes; houeto; Din Maker; Malichi; WXRGina; petitfour; duffee; .45 Long Colt; ...

Shocker!
Mississippi is 1st PING!

7 posted on 02/16/2015 12:30:38 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Kartographer

Mississippi leads again!


8 posted on 02/16/2015 12:30:51 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Red Badger

I would have expected New York to rank higher.
Anecdotally just about everyone who applies there gets rubber-stamped it seems.


9 posted on 02/16/2015 12:32:54 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Red Badger

Maine?


10 posted on 02/16/2015 12:33:45 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: Kartographer

They must mean “highest percentage of population” and NOT “greatest number” because California probably has more people on food stamps than actually live in New Mexico.

There is no way NM is #3 based on actual numbers.


11 posted on 02/16/2015 12:37:15 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: cincinnati65

#12......from bottom...................


12 posted on 02/16/2015 12:37:33 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger
I just noticed that the only three states spending under $10 per capita have at least three of the following the following four demographics in abundance:

  1. Energy workers.
  2. Cowboys and cowgirls.
  3. Mormons
  4. Conservative voters.

Why do you suppose that is? Could the other states learn something from them?

13 posted on 02/16/2015 12:37:38 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Kartographer

it must be all those Republicans in those states.


14 posted on 02/16/2015 12:37:43 PM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: Vigilanteman

No large urban areas..........................


15 posted on 02/16/2015 12:38:35 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Kartographer

Of the top ten states, eight are red states. Oregon and New Mexico (which has a Republican Governor and purple legislature) are the outliers. DC isn’t a state and shouldn’t be counted. We need to be holding our red states to higher standards.


16 posted on 02/16/2015 12:38:49 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Kartographer

Oregon? That seems a bit surprising compared to some others on the list above it.


17 posted on 02/16/2015 12:39:46 PM PST by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: Kartographer

It was worse in Espanola before the casinos came along. With the casinos, meth labs and Los Alamos, there is money to go along with the food cards. Walmart is crowded all the time.


18 posted on 02/16/2015 12:40:19 PM PST by pallis (I like white people)
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To: cincinnati65
Maine?

I used to think the same thing. The entire state is not Kennebunkport. When you go out into some of the rural counties, there is a lot of poverty. The paper industry has had a terrible last few years. Almost 1 in 8 people are below the poverty line. And then on the coast, you will find some of the most expensive real estate in the nation.

19 posted on 02/16/2015 12:41:01 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Kartographer

D.C, now that is liberalism at work.


20 posted on 02/16/2015 12:41:17 PM PST by Mark (Obama Care is now DEMOCRAT CARE)
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