Food Stamps Exist for a Reason

This is not a news article, but an Op.Ed on the sporadic use of food-stamps by some families. This editorial encourages people who are eligible for food stamps to use them. According to the Greater Boston Food Bank and the Boston Foundation, "the number of people using food pantries is up 46 percent nationally since 2006, according to the anti-hunger charity Feeding America, and up 23 percent in Massachusetts since 2005". Many people who are eligible don't know that they are eligible or don't know how to apply for food-stamps. The editorial also give some advice to the Patrick administration on how they should help food banks display information better and get assure people that "it is better to eat than worry about the social stigma of food stamps."

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/02/05/hunger_food_stamps_exist_for_a_reason/