Posted on 01/30/2016 10:50:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
More than 1 million low-income residents in 21 states could soon lose their government food stamps if they fail to meet work requirements that began kicking in this month.
The rule change in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was triggered by the improving economy - specifically, falling unemployment. But it is raising concerns among the poor, social service providers and food pantry workers, who fear an influx of hungry people.
Recent experience in other states indicates that most of those affected will probably not meet the work requirements and will be cut off from food stamps. ...
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In the meantime we will continue to shoot ourselves in the hands and feet as payback for foreigners trying to shoot us in the hands and feet.
Sorry you lost your job, I know that situation. I lost a job several years ago when our contract was terminated. I quickly found something else, but the experience was a kick in the gut. Hang in there. Unfortunately, you are correct. The government does not care about you, because White Men are the enemy.
I’m gonna remember that one!!
I’ll have two colors though.
Black and Brown.
England’s domestic industries were devastated.
I believe that to be absolutely correct.... The giving of commodities would also help them toward a more proper diet.... Maybe they would NOT be too fat to go get a J-O-B...!
As long as lazy Dindus keep pinching off feral eaters, we’ll have to keep supporting them and dying at their hands.
Some other England, perhaps.
Add in single white male and it makes it worse.
Hope you find a job soon.
As a female nearly 60, having only a HS education, kids grown and out of the house, husband dropped dead of a sudden heart attack. Not even Walmart would look at my application. My only work history was factory, making wire harnesses in my late 20’s-30’s. Stay at home mom. By 57 had arthritis of the hands so bad the obsolete secretary training I had in HS wasn’t worth a hoot. No work history for 20+ years hurt any meaningful earning job prospects.
Now if you are over 40 it’s hard to find a comparable job.
"After 1840 Britain abandoned mercantilism and committed its economy to free trade, with few barriers or tariffs. This was most evident in the repeal in 1846 of the Corn Laws, which were agricultural on domestic grain.
"Britain persisted in its free trade policy even as its major rivals, the U.S. and Germany, turned to high tariffs (as did Canada). American heavy industry grew faster than Britain, and by the 1890s was crowding British machinery and other products out of the world market.[36]
"The American "invasion" of the British home market demanded a response.[39] Tariffs, although increasingly under consideration, were not imposed until the 1930s.
Next!
this is only good news.
If one is capable of work and chooses not to, one goes hungry.
Period.
You nailed it.
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Boy do I understand where you are coming from.
If you’re still looking for a job—can i suggest looking small and local.
Mom and pop type places (small retailers) need trust worthy, reliable employees who they can “hand the key too” so they don’t have to work 12hr days.
The business I work for only employees us seasonally (so I end up on unemployment now 5 mos a year—not much but it’s a help) and gives us close to 40 hrs a week the other 7. It’s family owned specialty retail stores (two stores) and there are three of us who “run” the store. We’re all over 50, all balance the drawer to the penny, show up daily; aren’t “drama queens,” don’t spend our lives instragrammming our peeps, and interact with courtesy to our customers.
The owner of the stores has hired college kids for “help” (heavy lifting, unloading delivery trucks) and being added help during busiest times. But has ALWAYS hired “mom types” to be in charge...as we are RELIABLE!!
Good luck to you!
Good news!
I believe it has been pointed out that volunteer work counts. Even if no one is hiring and one has no money for tuition to get training, there is no reason not to volunteer. Amazing how many retired seniors with age related disabilities still volunteer so any able bodied person can.
That doesn’t preclude them qualifying on the basis of attending training courses.
Truthfully, since even before the Dust Bowl, America has had a problem of too much food. And cutting people off from food is the worst way to motivate them to either learn or work.
So clearly distinguish between food aid and welfare, because the dynamics of both are completely different.
Now, this being said, food aid does need major reforms.
To start with, it should be given to the states as block grants, with far fewer strings attached to other programs. And people receiving aid should not be continually required to submit endless paperwork, take buses across wide metro areas to autograph sign in sheets, and get nattered at by pestiferous leftist social workers any more than say once a year, not once a month or week.
Next, except for infants and young children, food aid should move away from processed food. Fresh produce should be high on the list, *supplemented* with seasonal surplus crops produced in a particular and adjacent states. This lets the states support their farmers as well.
This should be interactive with school lunch programs, which should have lots of free fruits and vegetables around for kids to take *if they want*, unconnected to their regular school lunch and sometimes breakfast. If the kids don’t want it, then they won’t take it and throw it away. And if they don’t want it, it can be integrated into their cooked food. For example, bananas into banana bread.
Churches should definitely be brought into the act. That is, many churches have kitchens that could be used in group efforts to take food aid and process it into tasty meals for poor, infirm, and elderly congregants. As well as canning the surplus.
An oddity of food economics is that people who buy their own food strongly prefer processed food, and even large scale unprocessed food given as aid does not affect its retail price at all. This is why one store might sell a potato for a dollar, and another a ten pound bag for a dollar.
The provision applies to able-bodied adults ages 18 through 49 who have no children or other dependents in their home. It requires them to work, volunteer or attend education or job-training courses at least 80 hours a month to receive food aid. If they don't, their benefits are cut off after three months.
Not really. In Maine, the number of able-bodied adults on food stamps in the state dropped 70%, from 12,000 to 2,680 when a work or volunteer requirement was instituted.
The average amount of free food a family of four gets is $478. and many get more.
All they have to do to get that money is volunteer 24 hours a MONTH. That's $20 an hour of non-taxed money.
Some are lazy. Some are working under the table and paying no state or federal taxes.
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