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US citizens scramble for food aid - 11 Feb 09

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The number of unemployed Americans continues to rise and some are now struggling to put food on the table, becoming increasingly dependent on food stamps to help them get by. 

Food stamps are a state-subsidised programme that helps people with a low income buy food at lower prices. But for many US citizens it may not be enough to help them weather the economic crisis, as Al Jazeera's Lucy Keating discovers in the US town of Knoxville in Tennessee.

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  • They keep saying richest nation in the world but that is no longer reality.

    Americans have hit foggy bottom.

    the cities look bombed out

    this is just the beginning the Govt is going to go Bankrupt

    food stamps, unemployment,welfare pensions

    everything is about to default.

    When that happens 50% of Americans will become useless eaters who cannot support themselves.

    the Fema camps will house them and feed them but they will never leave the camps at least not alive.

    these people did not prepare

  • Cynthia could turn in that gas guzzling SUV for a more gas efficient vehicle and save some money that way.

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  • How is possible? I eel sopity for them ! Soon, it will happen to us, in Europe !!!

  • we can get over this. it was worse in the depression, and look how we prospered in the fifties. people in the cities will suffer the most though, people in the country and the south are typically self sufficient

  • This isn't how it is all over the USA just for service industry. Take this time to go back to school to have a skill that keeps you at work. Don't be lazy and you can have the world.

  • Americans don't seem to realize the USA has two things going for us - the ability to be self-employed, & a huge market of gullible Christians. Four years ago i was unemployed. i noticed how easily churches got money from their congregation, & tax-free status from the government, so i started a Christian ministry. Now i have 200 people in my congregation, all giving me money. Some even sign over their welfare & unemployment insurance checks, lol! See my channel.

  • @MrRobertGulabo That is a very valid point. I wish more people understood this history, and how we have been manipulated by the large corporations.

  • @Souljahna Amen. The government wasn't shy when taking almost 1/3 of my paycheck every week. Why should I be shy when I need that money back to feed myself? We are paying for our own assistance but treated like criminals for asking for it.

  • @100silverpizza Reapply and do it until you get what you should have. 

  • @Innovater6 That has been changing fast, look around.

  • @flagship21 good start

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