TRUMBULL COUNTY \Public assistance

Total food stamps issued:

2002: $14.5 million

2006: $21 million

2007: $21.9 million

Car repairs, clothes, shelter, utilities:

2002: 2,636 individuals cost $1.2 million.

2007: 4,516 individuals cost $2.3 million.

Increases in food stamps and emergency assistance in suburbs since 2002:

Cortland: 63.5 percent

Girard: 93 percent

Hubbard: 71.8 percent

Kinsman: 79 percent

McDonald: 92.7 percent

Mineral Ridge: 85.1 percent

Southington: 175 percent

Vienna: 91 percent

Liberty: 25 percent

Countywide: 55.6 percent

Source: Trumbull County Job and Family Services