It seems to me that the study is looking at ability to budget and plan ahead. The very qualities it examines are very likely to be the same qualities that lead to dependence on these programs to begin with.
“It seems to me that the study is looking at ability to budget and plan ahead. The very qualities it examines are very likely to be the same qualities that lead to dependence on these programs to begin with.”
Agree, and now that this crap is electronic, why not pay it out weekly?
I was in a similar situation as a young enlisted sailor with a family. Even with food stamps, we barely got along. And we didn’t buy lobster and junk food at the quick mart. It was Ramen noodles, mac and cheese, and basic foods. Many enlisted families were in the same situation and we did not trade the food stamps for cash.
Does the study allow for time and gas management or does it lump all lump spending together? I’m not on welfare but I try to limit my trips to the grocery store to once a month or even every 6 weeks so that would put me in their spend all at once category. I can either drive into the nearby town and buy moldy produce and rock hard bread at the little grocer or I can wait to do one big grocery shopping at the Walmart 3-4 towns (no grocers in any of them) away when I pick up our meds. All one trip. Saves time and gas.
Does the study consider some poor people don’t have reliable transportation so they need to plan their errands accordingly?
Does the study consider those with half a brain might study the sales circulars and shop with lots of their needed items are on sale?
[ It seems to me that the study is looking at ability to budget and plan ahead. The very qualities it examines are very likely to be the same qualities that lead to dependence on these programs to begin with. ]
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