WASHINGTON -- When Jan Koum sold his company, WhatsApp, to Facebook for $19 billion on Wednesday, he signed the paperwork against the front door of the welfare office where his family used to collect food stamps.
Koum's not the first famously successful person who has gotten food stamps in the past. Here is a list of 13 others who've received benefits from what is now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which currently benefits 47 million Americans.
Bruce Springsteen: The Boss was on food stamps once, at least according to former bandmate Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez, who told The New Yorker's David Remnick in 2012about Springsteen's early days in Asbury Park.
"In the late afternoon," Remnick wrote, "after lunch, Lopez and I were driving around Asbury Park and he started laughing and pointing. 'That’s where we went to get food stamps -- all of us, Bruce, too,' he said." more
No comments:
Post a Comment