Census says 16m US children are living on food stamps, double the number in 2007

Guardian UK - Even as Barack Obama tours the country to promote his middle-class economic plan, American families increasingly need public assistance to help put food on the table. A new report by the US census bureau found that 16 million children live in families that receive food stamps, a number that almost doubled between 2007 and 2014.

The numbers imply that one in five US children would have gone hungry last year had their family not qualified for public assistance.  Read more.