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With more than 1 in 8 Americans now on food stamps, participation in the program has jumped about 70 percent from 26 million in May 2007, while the nation's unemployment rate rose from 4.3 percent to 9.2 percent through September of this year.If this is an indication of how our taxes have improved then it must be due in part to so many families having to apply for food stamps with which it doesn't add on taxes at checkout."We've seen a huge increase in participation due to the economic downturn," said Jean Daniel, a spokeswoman for the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service. "That's the way this program was designed."In addition to helping alleviate economic pressures, many states embrace the popularity of food stamps because their cost - $50 billion last year - is paid entirely by the federal government. States are only responsible for paying half of their programs' administrative costs.