Despite any economic gains that former President Barack Obama wants to tout from his presidency, it’s undeniable that he was the “food stamp president.” In 2009, 33,490,000 people received food stamp benefits, but by October 2016, that figure skyrocketed to 44,219,123 people receiving benefits, an increase of about 10,729,000. That’s an increase far out of proportion from what we’d normally expect with natural population increase. The cost of the program to taxpayers rose from $50.3 billion to $66.6 billion.
But there’s good news. The number of people on foot stamps is among the many disastrous aspects of Obama’s legacy that’s already being undone.
According to the Daily Wire, “new statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show nearly 1.5 million Americans have gotten off the food stamp rolls since President Trump took office in January 2017. That’s a 3.5% drop in less than a year.”
Trump has expressed interest on multiple occasions in returning to a “workfare” system for benefits, whereas able-bodied recipients must be either working or looking for work.
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