SNAP Enrollment – Florida, New Hampshire

Despite more jobs, number of food stamp recipients keeps rising, By Donna Gehrke-White, August 19, 2013, Sun Sentinel: “Despite a dramatic increase in workers finding jobs in the past year, the number of people on food stamps in Broward and Palm Beach counties continues to rise to historic levels. Even though the unemployment rate in Palm Beach County has dropped from 9.6 percent to 7.7 since last July, the number of food stamps recipients has jumped to 194,120, an increase of 6.3 percent, according to the latest data from the state…”
Food stamp caseload begins to fall in N.H., but agencies say many still need help, By Ben Leubsdorf, August 22, 2013, Concord Monitor: “The number of New Hampshire families relying on food stamps peaked in January and has been declining for six straight months, in large part because a newly reintroduced federal rule is limiting some low-income adults to three months of assistance…”