| ?People sign up for food stamps when they lose their jobs, or their wages go down because their hours are cut,? said Stacy Dean, director of food stamp policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, who noted that 14 states saw their rolls reach record numbers by last December. |
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