Monday, January 17, 2011

Food stamp surge in Illinois - Chicago Sun-Times

No numbers for Winnebago-Boone but it could be very high.

In Cook County, 467,754 households received SNAP benefits in December, a 13.6 percent increase over the year. In DuPage County, the number of households enrolled in the SNAP program jumped 23.8 percent to 25,520 in December from a year earlier. The number rose 15.4 percent in Kane County to 25,975, while the biggest percentage increase was in McHenry County, which spiked 30.3 percent to 7,265 families

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