More than half of Americans now believe it’s too easy to acquire food stamps, and adults now are more likely to blame the government for making it easier to be a food stamp recipient.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows that 52% believe it’s too easy for people to get food stamps in this country today. Just 11% think it’s too hard. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say the current level of difficulty for food stamp eligibility is about right. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on October 20-21, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.