Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20130404:09:47:00
Has grown from 14.3% in 2009 to now almost 17% of the country. and the number of americans participating in food stamp programs have also nearly tripled over the past decade. while some reports are warning that the sequestration cuts are bound to make this worse, it's interesting to note that these numbers all worsened amid a massive increase in spending to fight poverty. federal spending on the poor hit more than $569 billion in fiscal year 2011. that's a 5,500% increase from 1907 which far outpaces inflation. in the past two years the federal government spent more than $1 trillion on program...
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