From Boston.com:
The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.
Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website…
But don’t feel down about – Her Majesty, Michelle Obama, is off on another swank vacation with 40 of her closest friends. And that should make all you poor, little people feel better…after all, poor people like to see their betters having a good time, gives them someone to look up to!