That graph you are looking at is the escalation in food stamp usage since 2006. So why does that matter . Well the usda said 2000 active members got benefits in 2012. The average beneficiary gets about 1,400 a year. In that 104 million should provide food stamps for 75,000 active or former military and their families but public records only account for 2,000 recipients leading us to ask if more military families are falling through the cracks than the limited available data reveals, and if they dont keep detailed records, how can they evaluate their system . Joining us now is the director of research and policy at Blue Star Families a u. S. Army captain and graduate fellow at the university of texas, an air force veteran who has written on this topic and is skeptical about there being cause for alarm. And a Military Spouse whos husband is in active duty in the air force. Welcome to all of you. Debra, is the middle class way of life that people associate the military having provided for
The usda said 2,000 active duty members got food stamps in 2012. 104 million should provide food publics publicrecording onto account for 3,000 recipients. If the usda and department of defense dont keep detailed records, how could they evaluate their system and best help families. Joining us now is the director of research of military families, and a u. S. Army captain and graduate fellow at the university of texas, an air force veteran who has written on this topic, and is skeptical about the cause for alarm. And susans husband is in active military duty in the air force. Welcome to all of you. Debra is the middle class way of life that people associate the military having provided for decades on its way out . I dont know that it is on its way out, but we see a big differential between those who join the military as enlisted Service Members and those who join as officers. So your base salary for an e1, for somebody who is just joining is about 20,000, and you see an officer coming in
Was on valentines day was diagnosed with lung cancer. And she had been a lifetime smoker. And her disease progressed very quickly. And so by the end of april of 2004, i was at the u. S. Attorneys National Conference in san diego and i got a call from my younger brother saying to me, listen, moms back in the hospital. Really bad. If you want to see her you have to get home now. I flew back to new jersey and landed at Newark Airport and got in the car and drove to the hospital. And i got there and they started to give her more phone and trying to pain and i waited for her to wake up. She had not seen me for a week and said what day is it . I said its friday. She said what time is it . 9 30 in the morning. She said go to work. [laughter] governor christie i said, mom i decided to take the day off. Im going to spend the day with you. She said christopher, it is a work day go to work. I said are you afraid im taking advantage of taxpayers money. She said go to work its where you belong ther
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And 10,000 just yesterday in florida. Now we just got an announcement that the government of oklahoma, he has tested positive and believed to be the first governor in the country to contract the virus. And just a little while ago dr. Fauci, the nations leading Infectious Disease expert put out another critical message about the outbreak and it is important for all of us to listen even though it is clear that the white house does not want you to. When you look at the numbers, obviously weve got to do better. We have to almost reset this and say, okay, lets stop this nonsense and figure out how can we get control over this now and looking forward how can we make sure that next month we dont have another example of california, texas, florida, and arizona. Because those were the hot zones now. And im looking at the map, saying we have to make sure it doesnt happen in other states. So, rather than games people are playing, lets focus on that. The president today is trying to change the subj