Ohio: Food stamps double since '01

[weswelker#83]

Ohio: Nearly one in 10 now receives food stamps; highest number in state's history...

Low wages, unemployment and the rising cost of groceries, gasoline and other necessities are to blame for financial hardships facing many Ohio families.
Ohio's jobless rate is 5.3 percent, up from 4.4 percent in 2001.
"The economy and loss of manufacturing jobs are at the root of what's going on. But lately (it's) the rising cost of transportation and food -- people who were barely getting by, are not getting by,"

http://dispatch.com/live/content/loc...3.html?sid=101

[mgcolby]

And where did those manufacturing jobs go, Wes?