Americans' growing dependency on food stamps (The Week)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Week - One in seven U.S. citizens receives aid to buy food. Are we feeding the hungry, breeding dependency, or both?What are food stamps?They're a form of aid provided by the federal government to low-income households to help them buy food. The term "food stamps" comes from the coupon-like stamps used during the "War on Poverty" in the 1960s, although they were phased out in 2004 in favor of plastic debit cards, which are refilled electronically each month. In 2008, the government rechristened the program Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. But most people still call it food stamps, and the program has become a political flash point since GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said in January that "more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history."

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