The News & Observer offers this good news for Durham:
Durham County residents continue to struggle, with nearly twice as many people getting food assistance through the Department of Social Services as three years ago.
An estimated 42,441 people now receive Food and Nutrition Services benefits, a 78 percent increase over the 23,856 recipients in 2008. The increase in Durham County is greater than the state’s overall increase.
From August 2008 to August 2011, the number of individuals on Food and Nutritional Services statewide jumped nearly 65 percent from 993,081 to more than 1.6 million, according to Brad Deen, spokesman for the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
Tragically, like battered wives who refuse to leave their abusive husbands, these same people will go to the polls in droves next year and vote for the man who has presided over this record of misery.
