[Red Badger]

I’m old enough to remember teh ‘Commodity Program’.

Every month a case of foodstuffs would be delivered or you picked it up, depending on circumstances, containing peanut butter, dairy butter, flour, powdered milk, and various other things produced by American farmers and bought by the government........................

[Sequoyah101]

It was good stuff. Basics you could live on.

Whatever happened to the workfare program passed by clintoon in '95?

[PIF]

I’m old enough to remember teh ‘Commodity Program’.
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You mean his one?

Commodity Supplemental Food Program (usually known as SNAP)
https://www.fns.usda.gov/csfp/commodity-supplemental-food-program