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We encourage everyone interested in Refugee Resettlement to read through the 2005 Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Report to Congress. In the meantime, we will bring you an occasional nugget from the report.
According to a table on welfare useage, the number of refugees receiving food stamps has nearly doubled since 2000. In that year 28.8 % of refugees were on food stamps. Each year since the number has edged upward and for 2005, the number of refugees on food stamps had climbed to 52.7%.