re: Louisiana bans some welfare use

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USDA says Louisiana has about 900,000 people participating in SNAP.

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Sorry - my math was "decimal" challenged - 20% of 4 million would be 800k. The link I cited may be a couple of years old.

In any event, my 19.3% of Louisiana's population, should have read - 700k to 800k, minimum, not 70k to 80k - so there is no way the low numbers that triggered all this could be counting everything that actually is welfare as "welfare" (again, I would suspect even our TANF numbers are higher than that - after all, like I said, over 20k public housing units, and I do not believe that counts Section 8 recipients).