Your editorial (“Food stamps have evolved into farm bill Frankenstein,” July 11) is so wildly incorrect about the facts that it undermines the conclusions you draw and the opinions you use these “facts” to defend.
Your claim that 101 million Americans receive food stamps is off by an astonishing 53 million. The real number, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is 47,661,353 as of April. Your conclusions that this represents 1 in 3 Americans and more than the total number of private sector employees in the U.S. economy are similarly off-base.
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