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• Analysis: Residents receiving food stamps down 4.1% from last year

  by Local Labs News Service | Aug 13, 2019

  

  About 1,737,117 Illinois residents were on food stamp rolls in April 2019, a decrease of 4.1 percent over the same month last year, according to data obtained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

• Analysis: Residents receiving food stamps down 6.6% from last year

  by Local Labs News Service | Aug 12, 2019

  

  About 1,757,209 Illinois residents were on food stamp rolls in March 2019, a decrease of 6.6 percent over the same month last year, according to data obtained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

• Analysis: Residents receiving food stamps down 1196.9% from last year

  by Local Labs News Service | Aug 11, 2019

  

  About 141,914 Illinois residents were on food stamp rolls in February 2019, a decrease of 1196.9 percent over the same month last year, according to data obtained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

• Analysis: Residents receiving food stamps up 0.7% from last year

  by Local Labs News Service | Aug 10, 2019

  

  About 1,826,750 Illinois residents were on food stamp rolls in January 2019, an increase of 0.7 percent over the same month last year, according to data obtained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

• Illinois one of four states to see increase in food stamp participation

  by Hoang Tran | Aug 10, 2017

  

  Illinois is one of only four states that saw an increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation this year, according to the most recent data from U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service.