{"id":17563,"date":"2009-12-11T10:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=17563"},"modified":"2014-01-20T01:58:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T06:58:38","slug":"who-gets-food-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/11\/who-gets-food-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Gets Food Stamps?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alongside a New York Times<\/em> article<\/a> about the distribution of food stamps was a set of county-by-county maps<\/a> showing the percentage of different kinds of citizens on food stamps. What struck me was the difference between the “all recipients” map and the “children” map.<\/p>\n

Darker blue = a higher percentage on food stamps:<\/p>\n

\"Capture\"<\/p>\n

All recipients:<\/p>\n

\"all\"<\/p>\n

Children only:<\/p>\n

\"kids\"<\/p>\n

As you can see, the number of children on food stamps greatly outweighs the number of people on food stamps almost everywhere in the country. So, next time you think about the poor, remember how many of them are kids.<\/p>\n

Via Gin and Tacos<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alongside a New York Times article about the distribution of food stamps was a set of county-by-county maps showing the percentage of different kinds of citizens on food stamps. What struck me was the difference between the “all recipients” map and the “children” map. Darker blue = a higher percentage on food stamps: All recipients: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,223,29],"class_list":["post-17563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-childrenyouth","tag-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17563"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61081,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17563\/revisions\/61081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}