him comefu my name is john delaney, he is calling out his other colleagues. let s take a look. it feels like some democrats are cheering on a recession because they want to stick it to trump. i don t want a recession because i don t want these workers sitting here to face a recessio recession. sean: delaney is one of the only democratic candidates running who occasionally uses even just the small little bit of common sense and logic. by the way, therefore, he is close to pulling zero and this new, radical, socialist extreme democratic party. moderates need not apply. of course, contrary to the media mob s anti-trump wishes, our economy is booming. wall street journal pointing it out in w the last two days, e continue to see historic levels of employment for african-americans, hispanic-americans, women inn te workplace, and youth unemployment. look at median income in america. it s on the rise. we ve lost millions for the food
critics target the minorities for low level marijuana crimes. i move on. canada thought second country in the world to fully legalize marijuana. the senate passing on landmark bill paving the way for recreational can business cannabis legally bought and sold. under the law can a made yapping 18 years and older will be able to grow up to four plants and carry up to 30 grams for personal use. canadian football will still only have three downs. steve? steve: food stamp enrollment plummeting to 8-year low. the department of agriculture reporting a drop in snap participants to just over 40 million. what s going on? our next guest says he thinks it s largely in part to president trump s policies. joining us right now to explain is the vice chairman of the center for urban renewal and education, mark little. mark, good morning to you. good morning. how are you, steve? steve: i m doing okay. why has food stamp enrollment dropped to 8-year low. i will tell you, steve,
jillian: good morning to you and welcome back, food stamp enrollment plummet as america s employment skyrocket. rob: to help us break down some of the biggest economic headlines is columnist and former wall street financial analyst liz peek, thank you so much for coming on this morning. my pleasure, talking about good news. rob: we have food stamp enrollment now. most people out there working, right? that is message to policymakers out there, the best social welfare policy for sure is a full employment economy and that s what we ve got. incredibly job market and convicted felons are being hired now, a black unemployment and hispanic unemployment, good news for people who used to be on
the president wants to lay the failures with rising food stamp enrollment in the feet of congress. unfortunately, for the president. americans are not confident that he is the guy to make the decision. we don t have a king. and if we had one, i highly doubt barak obama would win the vote. we ll see how he sells it in tomorrow s state of the union. thank you, chris. household income is down and foot stamps are up and poverty rate is up, if things are so great, how come on on we have made tremendous progress but there is more work to do. american workers and businesses are doing the right thing and washington needs to help him. chris wallace going with dan ph ieffer.
o reilly. usda figures showing the government shelled out a shocking amount of food stamps for 13 consecutive months. diane macedo joins us now with more on this story. we keep hearing about how the u.s. economy is in recovery but that isn t having much of an impact on food stamp enrollment. according to the department of agriculture enrollment in the supplemental assistance program first hit 47 million back in august of 2012. since then the markets are up the unemployment rate is down and yet the department s most recent figures show enrollment in august of 2013 actually climbed to nearly 48 million. that is way up from the less than 32 million people enrolled in the program when the president took office in january of 2009. that year people also started getting as much as 13.6 percent more in food stamps as part of the federal economic stimulus package. that increase expired last week which will save the government about $5 billion next year. we will see if that has any