What we find inter­est­ing about the fol­low­ing story is that it is on the EU News Wire instead of an Amer­i­can source. A new study has found that 49% per­cent of Amer­i­can chil­dren live in a house­hold that uses food stamps. We’re assum­ing that this is at one point in the child­hood, and not throughout.

From this story that we found at Offi­cial Wire, we read more sta­tis­tics from the study con­ducted at Wash­ing­ton University.

“Food stamp use is a clear sign of poverty and food inse­cu­rity, two of the most detri­men­tal eco­nomic con­di­tions affect­ing a child’s health,” Mark R. Rank, a poverty expert at the George War­ren Brown School of Social Work at Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity in St. Louis, says in a statement.

The sub­stan­tial risk of a child being in a fam­ily that uses food stamps is con­sis­tent with a wider body of research demon­strat­ing U.S. chil­dren face con­sid­er­able eco­nomic risk through­out their child­hood years.

– 90 per­cent of black chil­dren and 37 per­cent of white chil­dren will be in a house­hold that uses food stamps.

– Nearly one-quarter of all Amer­i­can chil­dren will be in house­holds that use food stamps for five or more years dur­ing childhood.

– 91 per­cent of chil­dren with sin­gle par­ents will be in a house­hold receiv­ing food stamps, com­pared to 37 per­cent of chil­dren in mar­ried households.

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