how do you know this? i think some mothers are doing this, but not most mothers who receive food stamps... i volunteer at a local Pregnancy Resource Center, and i'm not seeing this...
I know this because I was a lawyer with clients on food stamps, I know it because I saw women exchanging stamps on the street for cash, which they then used to buy non-food items.
The setups in Philly outside of the offices where people obtained foodstamps were like a circus. There was the guy with cash, another sellin sides of beef, which could be obtaned for cash, many others selling clothing, bookbags, odds & ends for children and women’s clothing, sunglasses, makeup, etc. This all took place out on the street with no intervention from the police. It was a real eyeopener to me. This may not happen everywhere, and now that there is the ‘credit card’ system, it may have stopped, but I saw it in Philly in the early 90s.