New York City’s Independent Budget Office says nearly 1.6 million residents are on food stamps — a pace of growth not seen since the early years of the program in the 1970s. From January 2008 to August of this year, the food stamp enrollment grew by 354,000 people. That’s an increase of nearly 30 percent. The budget office attributes the growth to attempts at the city and state level to get …
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