Posted on 03/20/2015 12:29:26 PM PDT by bgill
With a grocery bills priced as high as $1,300 per month as of late, some American workers simply cannot afford all of their groceries on top of everything else they already have to buy. This is why the government offers food stamps.
The USDA Food and Nutrition Service reports that as of September 2014, there were around 46.5 million individual food stamp recipients (22.7 million households) receiving an average benefit of $123.74 each (around $257 per household).
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2. D.C.
3. New Mexico
4. Oregon
5. Tennessee
6. West Virginia
7. Louisiana
IOW, you're paying for every 5th person's groceries. Aside from Moo, who the heck can afford $1300/mo.?
I don’t care what it’s for and how much it is. The indisputable fact is that it’s stolen from those of us who work hard for our money and pay for everything ourself.
Oregon? Isn’t this the Leftist Paradise?
If they can afford a late model SUV [and gas for it] then they can afford to buy their own food.
$1300 a month????
I feed a family of three (one child) organic and whole foods. I do not spend $1300 per month on groceries! Where the hell did this author come up with that?!?!?!?!
You know those adverts you see on television about all the children going to bed hungry every night?
It can only be that momma traded the EBT for dope or whatever....and btw the food stamp amount allotted does not account for all the free lunches and breakfasts the kiddos get.
D.C.?
You would think with all those government jobs and government money floating around, they would not be #2 on the list.
Oregon ping....leading the way to poorville
And most of them load up the high end stuff. Food assistance should be the staples, no steak and lobster, no alcohol.
Get caught, revoked for life.
I am for helping people who genuinely need help but being ripped off blatantly and condemned for not sacrificing more burns me.
” It can only be that momma traded the EBT for dope or whatever..”
A billion dollar undercover business.
We are a family of 6 and we don’t even approach $1300 a month
Big Food and Big Business in general seem to have become strongly in favor of high levels of food stamps and other welfare payments because of the increased demand for their products. That’s why there’s no political will to try to reduce the welfare state if the donor class is for it.
Yes, but what is Mississippi’s excuse?
Yeah...how in heck can a person keep their family in Starbucks and Whole Foods on that kind of food money?
A lot of the Katrina refugees ended up here in Tennessee. I guess that’s part of it.
Yes!!!! We’re #7!!!!!
That is part of the problem with DC being so out of control. The pols making these decisions probably spend that much money on food.
I did a challenge when food stamp benefits were (not really) lowered awhile back. What I learned is that $30 or less a week for food is tough. But on $35 it's possible to eat a very healthy and complete diet. Not much room for junk food or extras, though.
You need to consume $1300/month to become obese.
Three of us in the house and we come in at around 550-600 a month and that is with all the goodies thrown in which I cannot stand.
This is misleading. The states with the most people on food stamps are the largest states California, Texas, Florida, New York.
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