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But this isn\u2019t true, and we\u2019ll take a look at the different faces that belong to food stamps.Education LevelsThe\u00a0Oneida Daily Dispatch\u00a0has reported that nationally, 28 percent of SNAP recipients have had some college education, with an exact percent not even having graduated from high school. Although these numbers would vary a bit from state to state, it\u2019s a sobering statistic that shows education level\u2014or lack of it\u2014isn\u2019t a qualification for food stamps.One of the biggest reasons for this is that about a generation ago, manufacturing jobs paid well and didn\u2019t require much education. Those jobs disappeared, leaving a mass of workers left scrambling for any type of job, and the remaining jobs doled out to educated workers based on the belief that their extra training meant they\u2019d be better workers.RaceThe\u00a0Pew Research Center\u00a0conducted a study to see who food stamps users are based on race, and there are both surprises and not.Black people make up 31 percent of SNAP users, followed by Hispanics (22 percent), \u201cother\u201d non-Hispanic (18 percent), and whites (15 percent). But instead of looking at this from the perspective that race has something to do with being on food stamps, it might be smarter to examine\u00a0why\u00a0more people of minorities find themselves in situations needing food stamps than whites. What privileges are afforded to whites that keep their heads above water that minorities don\u2019t get?PoliticsBy far, the biggest political divide in the United States is between Democrats and Republicans, and the line has only gotten sharper in recent history. The same\u00a0Pew Research Center study\u00a0shows 22 percent of Democrats are on food stamps, compared with 10 percent of Republicans and 17 percent of Independents.Interestingly, though, when party labels are erased from the conversation and SNAP users are analyzed based on general political beliefs, the demographics shift quite dramatically. Conservatives, Moderates, and Liberals each have 17 percent of their adherents on food stamps.AgeForbes\u00a0has very neatly broken down how old food stamps recipients are:Elderly (60+): 8 percentDisabled non-elderly: 19.8 percentNon-disabled childless adult (18-49): 23.6 percentChildren: 48.7 percentWith one of the most common stereotypes of the typical food stamps user being an unemployed minority with a bunch of children, the aforementioned breakdowns show that quite the opposite is the case."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Articles","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Articles\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Article","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Articles\/\/Article\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"ID","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Articles\/\/Article\/\/ID\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"176","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Articles\/\/Article\/\/ID\/\/176\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"The Facelessness of Food Stamps","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Articles\/Article\/ID\/176\/the-facelessness-of-food-stamps#breadcrumbitem"}]}]