The only time 3 months income is looked at is when it's child support. ladulce, I don't know where you're getting your information.
The only time an entire year is looked at is if someone is self-employed and they filed seld-employment taxes.
Check out the policy.

Past 3 months income is not correct either. all they look at is income received within the last 30 days. Go to your local human services-Economic Support division for further info.

Call: maybe you could give up some of your food and feed someone else! that was not a very compassionate statement. My brother worked at McDonalds and he said they throw food away every few minutes, and if they eat it they get fired! I say why don't some of these fast food places change their policy and donate there left over food to shelters or amybe the salvation army who feed people all the time. I know it would be hard but maybe they could package it up someway just so the hungry could have something. especially the kids, who can see them hungry and not want to do something?!

I think it is great that the USA will send airplanes and boats around the world with food but people in our own country some are going without!
And as for the fat comment:
I'm not fat BUT I don't think who is fat and who isn't shouldn't determine who eats and who doesn't in AMERICA!

If that is true, about the three months, than that is very comforting. Apparently the three months was omitted from the explanation, or I missed it, and only heard the 'last years income'. Three months without income for food is still a long time to wait, although much better than a year. Thank you for the clarification.
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I understand that things need to be investigated and studies need to be done on certain things, but at this point in time, a study isn't needed to identify the problems in our society. I am willing to bet one out of five people you meet on the street could tell you all you need to know. Yes, with emotion involved, which can change the perception, but the jest of it is people are struggling.

It's unfortunate that in the 21st century some would prefer to celebrate ignorance. The food stamp statistics are obviously easily obtained and represent a small fraction of the information contained in this report. Even so, it's one thing to say that the information is readily available; it's another to say that "all we need" is the data. Somebody somewhere still has to examine it and draw conclusions from it. The data doesn't study itself.
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The executive summary explains the rationale: "But if we are to fight poverty and promote opportunity, we need to define the problem—we need to know where poverty is within our state, whether it is growing or receding, how poverty in Wisconsin compares to neighboring states, and how severe income poverty has become of late in Wisconsin. Moreover, we need to be able to evaluate the impact of our antipoverty policies on measured income poverty so we know what works—and what doesn’t work."
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The Institute for Poverty Research, which is one of three area poverty study centers sponsored by the federal Department of Health and Human Services, is here;
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/
The report is here:
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/research/Wiscons...

Receipt of Foodshare benefits is determined by the previous 3 months income. Therefore, immediately after being fired, you may not qualify, but, after even one month of unemployment, you may be qualified, almost certainly after 3 months you would.

Rummage...Where are you gettign your information about people being denied FoodShare based on last years income? According to FoodShare policy income is counted based on when it is received in relation to when benefits are received. I would check your sources.

This is really ridiculous that a study needs to be conducted. This information could be had with just a tally of county assistance reports. Some of these studies our country does are just plain goofy.

CALL....as much as I LOVE your philosophy (I could lose some of that weight...grrr..), but seriously, no CHILD should suffer. And children are the ones who are suffering. What is so sad is, people who are out of work and are in need of money are being rejected for foodshare because they made too much money last year, even though there is NO INCOME at this time. What are these families suppose to do...reach back in time and reclaim the money they made? That is messed up!

Or maybe the average Wisconsonite could lose the 40-50 lbs they are overweight.

That sounds like realism....how dare you! Oh wait, we need more of that!

We could have bought a lot of food for the poor with the money that was given to the The University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty.