The latest consequence of the growing economic morass: 28 million Americans are expected to be on food stamps this year. The news, though, is not all bad. The New York Times’s Erick Eckholm reports that states have been successfully promoting the availability of the Department of Agriculture administered entitlement program to their low-income citizens. What hurts is that the benefits have not been indexed for inflation since 1996.  Read Eckholm here.  MB

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