claim: "more than half of the people on food stamps today are children."
author: marcia fudge
evidence_1: what percent of the people who are eligible participate in snap? where can ... in  fact, more than half of snap recipients are children or the elderly. for the ...
evidence_2: feb 13, 2018 ... in a typical month in 2017, snap helped more than 40 million low-income ... with  children; nearly a third are in households with seniors or people with disabilities.  .... and 56 percent go to households at or below half of the poverty line (about ....  today, in large part because of these programs, such severe ...
evidence_3: apr 4, 2017 ... but more than half of snap participants are children. ... but that wasn't because  the people getting the benefits are lazy -- well, i'm sure some of them were -- but  generally, .... well, today it's probably more like a range rover.
evidence_4: mar 5, 2014 ... population aging, smaller households, fewer children, and shifts ... billion in 2012 , more than two and a half times the 2000 level when adjusted for inflation. ...  over the past three decades, snap participation peaked during ...
evidence_5: feeding america works to lift people out of poverty. more than half of the  households that the feeding america network serves receive snap benefits, and  ...