The WSJ Economics blog reports on the latest increase in food stamp usage that recently reached 43 million across the U.S. and 20 percent or more in some areas as shown below.
Note that the graphic is interactive over at the Wall Street Journal, so you can see how your state is doing. We’re below the national averaged here in Montana, but not by much . This separate report about how 6 million Americans didn’t work at all last year probably has a lot to do with the data in the table above.
