that s 47.5 million people. the program expanded when the economy tanged. there was an effort to promote food stamps that came from the administration. now things have improved a little bit. the number has gone down a little bit but not a commensurate amount. stewart varney joins me now, anchor of varney and company. it is a shocking number. one in sick americans. reporter: i have an even more astonishing number for you. 101 million recipients of some kind of food assistance from the federal government. there are 15 food assistance programs which include food stamps and 101 million people get the benefits. by contrast only 97 million americans work full time. let me break down that 101 million number for you. almost 47 million on food stamps.
exiter account which it cleared of all don t after benedict the xvith resigned first new tweet we have a pope from francis. well, the election of pope francis the first pontiff from latin america, of course, people traveled here from all over the world to witness today s announcement. here is the reaction from those who had come from the new pope s homeland of argentina. [chanting] i think it was a surprise to a lot of them especially meaningful to changes in policy back home. some estimates as high as 101 million.
gallon. a month ago we were paying 43 cents less. call it the bourbon backlash. makers mark is reversing a decision to cut the amount of alcohol in the bottles of famous whiskey after thousands of complaints makers mark had planned to lower the amount from 45 to 42% because of a supply shortage, and in a tweet the company said, though, you spoke, we listened. this president s day the website 24/7 wall street.com analyzed the net worth of every president based on 2010 dollars. here are the five richest presidents. the largest landowner in his virginia county, james madison, number 5, $101 million. andrew jackson married into wealth. he was worth 119 million. at number 3, theodore roosevelt born into a prominent family with a trust fund and thomas jefferson worth 212 million. his father left him 3,000 acres and several dozen slaves. and the richest president ever, george washington, $525 million,
does the releasing of the information take some of the steam out of senator harry reid and other republicans who said he didn t pay any taxes at all? absolutely not. this doesn t answer any questions, tamron. first of all, we haven t seen it. they re drip, dripping it out because they want you to tell the story about the 4 million, but they don t tell you the rest of the story that comes at 3:00. we don t know a lot of information about the 20 years. they give us a summary of 20 years. why not release the tax returns if they re that noxious? they re not willing to show the american people what they have a right to see. we don t know anything about the $101 million he has in his i.r.a., which it s impossible to accumulate that much money with the annual contribution limit or about his swiss bank account or the contributions in the cayman islands or the offshore accounts in the bermuda shell company. we don t know any information because romney is selective about the information he s r
that decision. reporter: if there are clear skies there will be a lot of questions about it. they have to deal with shrinking a crowd of 65,000 to 20,000. there may be been a lot of people who flew in or drove in to see the president and they will be disappointed. megyn: the television anchors would going to have to sit outside in the potential rain. we pulled some numbers on governor romney many fundraising. in the first week of april governor romney began working with the rnc to raise money. they have outraised the president by $78.2 million. here is the breakdown in june. in july the romney team made $101 million, the president $75 million. that brings the total cash on hand at $185 million for team