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'Recovery?'
- One out of 11 Michigan residents receive
government assistance to purchase food. The last time it was
that high was in 1996.
- Every day, 65,000 people in southeast
Michigan (Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Livingston counties)
receive help from just one of the area food banks.
- The average government assistance benefit
is $80 a month for an individual, $186 for a family; the
maximum assistance benefit is $141 a month for an
individual, $371 for a family of three.
- Fifty-one percent of recipients are
children; 9.5 percent are seniors. Sixty percent of
recipients are women.
- Eighty percent of benefits went to poor
households; 17 percent to households with a disabled
person.
Information courtesy of
the Michigan Family Independence Agency and the
Detroit
News. |
