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Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in MayThe number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website.Participation has set records for 18 straight months.Unemployment in July may have reached 9.6 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts in advance of the Aug. 6 release of last monthâ??s rate. Unemployment was 9.5 percent in June, near levels last seen in 1983.An average of 40.5 million people, more than an eighth of the population...