Posted on 12/09/2015 10:43:49 AM PST by blam
Emily Badger
Deember 9, 2015
Toward the end of every month, hospitals in California see a curious uptick in admissions for hypoglycemia, the kind of low blood sugar that can affect diabetics.
The pattern, detected in a recent study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, is almost entirely driven by low-income patients.
The non-poor don't show much change in admissions at all.
The researchers suspect this trend may point to an underlying challenge for the poor: Food stamps, given out in a lump sum at the start of each month, run out for many families before they reach the end of it.
Where grocery stores in poor neighborhoods often report a rise in business when food stamps are electronically debited, hospitals may see the result when they run out.
That paper, led by Hilary Seligman, is one of several relatively new studies suggesting that the level of food assistance we currently give families — the average family of three gets $374 a month — isn't enough for a month's worth of meals.
A new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisors corralling this research shows that the short-term effects show up in some surprising ways. Amid the well-documented long-term effects of food stamps in alleviating hunger and easing poverty, week to week it looks as if the food stamp cycle may also influence hospital admissions, student test scores and even childhood behavior.
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Jobs?
Work?
Send them to Afghanistan to fight and earn those handouts.
What about the breakfast, lunch, snacks, and even in dinner given in some school districts to all students, so that the ones “in poverty” won’t feel singled out?
And I have seen with my own two eyes, more than once, grocery buggies filled with junk snacks, grape drank, steaks, roasts, etc, paid for with multiple EBT cards.
So cry me a river.
Easy solution, put 1/4 of the amount on their EBT card every week instead of doing it once a month. Not entirely sure how it all works but wouldn’t it just be an electronic addition to the EBT card?
Course, if there’s an expensive yet useless way to solve this problem, our government will find it.
Maybe if they didn’t spend it all on Newports and Old English 800...
They are at the AM/PM with a sad story.
No, its NOT that $374 isn’t enough, its that they spend it too fast on junk.
When you removed the strict guidelines and ceased the give aways, you asked for this problem. The answer is NOT more money...its better management.
Many food stamp recipients do work at low paying jobs and receive foodstamps to supplement their income.
I suppose getting (or even looking for) a job is out of the question......
Simple - renew the account every week. The trained apes will never want.
Oh, for God’s sake. I can’t even crack wise about this. You know damn well they’re going to demand weekly updates.
How about the administration ending its job- killing crusade ? Then we can end food stamps and welfare for all the millions of Americans they’ve forced onto welfare for lack of employment opportunities
I saw a hilarious video on facebook. Just looked it up, it’s here.
I worked at a convenience store many years ago. The EBT machine did not work so we could not process EBT cards.
Every single person who tried to buy something with their EBT card paid cash instead.
I did not have a single customer leave their items and walk out.
For what it’s worth.
Nevertheless, it wouldn't cost the government that much to do the debits on the 1st and 15th of the month, as much as I like avoiding shopping on the early days of the month.
Blah, blah, blah.
I suspect the family budget for beer, dope, smokes and lotto tickets still remains strong.
But food?
Nahh.
Is that what happens to these people? They work so hard that they get low blood sugar?
$374 is not enough for meals?
Like hell it isn’t
but the basics and disallow anything else
Milk, eggs, cheese, bread peanut butter... no cookies or lobsters or steaks - hamburgers and hot dogs only
LOL this article is hysterical!!!
i can’t count the number of people i met driving a cab who ADMIT to selling their cards for half price to buy drugs.
400 a month for 3?
why that’s only enough for 100 pounds of chicken, ton of potatoes, pounds of cheap cereal and money left over.
drink water. It’s free. and you’re not contributing anything anyway.
But i’m sure one day the SCOTUS will find it in the constitution.
So maybe they’re poor and hungry because they consistently make poor life decisions.
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