Food Stamps not Popular in Wyoming

[manfromnevada]

I don't know exactly how we rank, but looking at this map certainly leads one to believe we might be dead last in Food Stamp participation:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/11/01/some-15-of-u-s-uses-food-stamps/tab/interactive/

Mac

[MamaLiberty]

That's cool.

[Crappiewy]

Mississippi is the worse at 21% and Wyoming is the best at 6% of population. Under 2000 people in the state.

[bobcat]

That'll help keep the rif-raf out. 

[faithriderjr]

Thats right bobcat. I was just wondering that the other day how Wyoming ranked. I was standing in line at the grocery store (in south carolina) and observed how many people were swiping that particular card. Great sense of pride came to me when I handed cash over to the girl behind the register for the stuff that was in my basket.

[Don Wills]

Mississippi is the worse at 21% and Wyoming is the best at 6% of population. Under 2000 people in the state.

Actually 33,000+ are on food stamps in Wyoming.  But still the best of all states both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the population.

[bobcat]

Good catch on the math Don.  550,000 x .06 = 33,000

[Dennis Wilson]

Great sense of pride came to me when I handed cash over to the girl behind the register for the stuff that was in my basket.

Oh, man! People are going to think I PAID you to set up with THAT line....
I make a point of wearing a shirt with this on it when I go grocery shopping...:



http://www.cafepress.com/artemiszuna/1951961

and I make a show of the money that I hold in my hand.

[B-LINE]

If you open the link, and click on a state, it shows the percentage of people on food stamps, and the number of people receiving them.

[Brandy]

I must just have rotten luck because I am behind probably all 2000 of them at one point or the other when I go grocery shopping ----then I get asked if my stuff is WIC  because of the baby.  I always tell the checker "No, this will be paid for in cash by my working husband."  Usually get some interesting looks.

Brandy

[Crappiewy]

Mississippi is the worse at 21% and Wyoming is the best at 6% of population. Under 2000 people in the state.

Actually 33,000+ are on food stamps in Wyoming.  But still the best of all states both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the population.

well thats weird. It said 1976 people when I looked at it before...