Harrison and Hancock counties Food Stamp recipients have doubled since 2007
Many American families will be facing Thanksgiving with a smaller food budget.
Benefits shrank an average of 5 percent for the more than 46 million people who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after an economic-stimulus package expired Nov. 1.
On the Coast, that affects many more people than it did a few years ago.
In Harrison and Hancock counties, the number of people in the program has more than doubled since 2007 and nearly doubled in Jackson County.
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