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Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 | 1:13 p.m.
A new report from local consulting firm Applied Analysis offers yet another grim assessment of the state of Southern Nevada, this time about disadvantaged people and their spiking need for social services.
The state’s food stamp program, which provides nutritional assistance to the unemployed, impoverished and disabled, has seen enrollment increase more than 50 percent in the past year. Nearly 10 percent of Nevadans, or 238,000 residents, are now enrolled. The State Health and Human Services Department estimates the figure will rise to 20 percent of all Nevadans in the coming years.
Given this sharp increase in food stamp recipients – nearly 5 percent in August alone – also unsurprising is a sharp increase in Nevadans served by Three Square. The number of families served by the private nonprofit food assistance program were up 9 percent in August alone and more than 60 percent compared to a year ago.
Welfare caseloads are up nearly 40 percent from a year ago.
The number of homeless children enrolled in the Clark County School District is up 11.6 percent to more than 5,700.
On the plus side, both mortgage defaults and foreclosures are down, both in the most recent period, and over the past year.
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John Ensign is too busy cheating on his wife to help Nevada.
John Ensign is not the second most powerful politician in America, Harry "Shovel Reaady" Reid is. And Harry doesn't care about Nevada.
Maybe if the sexual predator John Ensign did his job instead of lying to his wife and kids, cheating with his friends wife, having his parents pay her off, he would have been more effective and powerful?
John Ensign is a disgrace.
all of these politictins are a joke I wish we could find people to put into office that care about the everday day people not just the ones that fund there campines..
Nick: do you have a crush on Ensign?
Maybe Dingo they can get some of William Jefferson's cold hard cash ($90,000) that was in his freezer to help pay their food costs. Why discriminate against just whites? There are plenty of crooks in government of all shapes, sizes and colors.
Why get a job when you can vote for obama and reid who will try to get other people to work and pay for your stuff?
rejco, I think that the motto is more along the lines of: why work when I can get other people to work and pay my bills