Hudson Valley food stamp rolls outpace New York City, state
Photo credit: AP | A cashier works at a ShopRite grocery store. The number of people in the Lower Hudson Valley receiving food stamps has doubled in the past five years, driven up by the recession and changes to state and federal requirements that have made it much easier to qualify, according to county officials. (Jan. 8, 2013)
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The Hudson Valley's food stamp rolls are growing more than three times as fast as New York State's and 10 times as fast as New York City's, according to year-over-year statistics cited in a new study.
Almost 12,000 Hudson Valley residents began receiving food stamps in the third quarter of 2012, a 5.5 percent increase from the 2011 period, according to a quarterly study of the region's economy...
