FL: Deputies: Lakeland heroin ringleader (illegal alien) used food stamps

FL: Deputies: Lakeland heroin ringleader (illegal alien) used food stamps...There are still a lot of unanswered questions about how 43 year-old Pablo Borgen, who the Polk County Sheriff's Office says is in this country illegally, was able to qualify for $900 a month in food stamps... pulled in thousands of dollars a month heading up a heroin operation.. the operation was a family affair. After a 14 month investigation they arrested 33 people including Borgen's wife and sister. Judd says some of the other suspects were also collecting food stamps. "They're stealing from the people that need it. They steal when they sell the drugs. They steal when they go after stuff they don't qualify for. You know if you're bringing in $70,000 a month you don't need $900 in food stamps."

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/196986/8/Deputies-Lakeland-heroin-ringleader-used-food-stamps

Connecticut: Owner Of Hartford Bodegas Sent To Prison — Again — For Food Stamp Fraud (Yes, an illegal)

Connecticut: Owner Of Hartford Bodegas Sent To Prison — Again — For Food Stamp Fraud (Yes, an illegal)...The owner of a string of Hartford bodegas was sentenced Monday to more than 5 years in prison for food stamp fraud, the second time in about a decade he has been convicted, sentenced and ordered deported for the same crime. When he sneaked back into the U.S. from the Dominican Republic in 2000, after being deported the first time, Apolinar Collado, 42, opened and operated a succession of four stores and stole about $1.6 million over eight years.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-food-stamp-theft-0607-20110606,0,237930.story?track=rss

Time To Celebrate The Recovery: Food Stamp Usage Hits Fresh Record

Time To Celebrate The Recovery: Food Stamp Usage Hits Fresh Record...That average monthly benefit of $133.24 for 44.199 million people will help with the purchase of one third of a very edible iPad. Food stamp participation chart presented without further commentary.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/time-celebrate-recovery-food-stamp-usage-hits-fresh-record

TX: El Pasoans Feast On Food Stamps

TX: El Pasoans Feast On Food Stamps...Eighty percent of El Pasoans are Hispanic, according to the latest U.S. census data. (HMMM, SO THAT'S WHY OBAMA MADE HIS OBAMIGRATION SPEECH IN EL PASO???)One in five El Pasoans uses the program. Combined, they bought more than $20 million in groceries with food stamps in March according to numbers from Texas Health and Human Services.

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/27781334/detail.html

One in Seven Americans Rely on Food Stamps

One in Seven Americans Rely on Food Stamps...The government reports that 14.3 percent of Americans were using food stamps in February, about the same rate it has been for months..House Republicans have proposed overhauling the $65 billion food stamp program — known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — by replacing it with capped block grants to states. The new program would pay for aid but make it contingent on work or job training.

http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/US-Poised-World-Highest/2011/05/04/id/395104

USDA Spends $5 Mil To Recruit Food-Stamp Recipients

USDA Spends $5 Mil To Recruit Food-Stamp Recipients...The number of food-stamp recipients has skyrocketed in the last few years yet the Obama Administration keeps wasting millions of taxpayer dollars to recruit more participants in the name of eradicating “food insecure households.”

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/apr/usda-spends-5-mil-recruit-food-stamp-recipients

US To Materially Expand Food Stamp Program As America Prepares For Surge In "Poverty Effect"

US To Materially Expand Food Stamp Program As America Prepares For Surge In "Poverty Effect" ...44.2 million Americans who now subsist below the poverty line and rely on the government for basic food needs, have become quite a drag on otherwise insolvent state and local governments. Never fear: the US taxpayer is here

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-materially-expand-food-stamp-program-america-prepares-surge-poverty-effect

Change: Food Stamp Participation Up 50% Under Barack Obama

Change: Food Stamp Participation Up 50% Under Barack Obama...Maybe they ought to have put this graph in Obama’s first campaign video

http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/change-food-stamp-participation-up-50-under-barack-obama/

Utah: Most Social Welfare Programs Closed to Illegal Aliens (but NOT to their anchors)

Utah: Most Social Welfare Programs Closed to Illegal Aliens (but NOT to their anchors)...Illegal Aliens can’t access the "big three" social supports: welfare, food stamps and Medicaid. But their citizen children can, and THEIR NUMBERS ARE GROWING.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50841686-76/immigrants-wic-undocumented-medicaid.html.csp

Welfare Use by Legal & Illegal Immigrant Households with Children

Welfare Use by Legal & Illegal Immigrant Households with Children..13 years after welfare reform, the share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of education and their resulting low incomes – not their legal status or an unwillingness to work. The major welfare programs examined in this report include cash assistance, food assistance, Medicaid, and public and subsidized housing.

http://oneoldvet.com/?p=27415