212 million working age adults (age 15 to 64) in USA. There are 42 million SNAP recipients, 2/3 of which have no children or 28 million single SNAP eating adults. So divided up 28M/212M = 13%. For every 10 workers, the tenth is doing nuffin fo dat muffin. Including the adults with kids its 19% of adults of work age collecting SNAP, close to 2 out of 10 working age adults, the 8 work for the 2 to get free food.
212 million working age adults (age 15 to 64) in USA. There are 42 million SNAP recipients, 2/3 of which have no children or 28 million single SNAP eating adults. So divided up 28M/212M = 13%. For every 10 workers, the tenth is doing nuffin fo dat muffin. Including the adults with kids its 19% of adults of work age collecting SNAP, close to 2 out of 10 working age adults, the 8 work for the 2 to get free food.