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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Here are the numbers by location.
A quick scan says the typical number is about 130 bucks per person per month.
http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/avg-monthly-food-stamp-benefits/
Nashville has a huge muzzie population & then there’s Murfreesboro. Don’t forget detroitized Memphis.
I love Tennessee & my Mom lives there whom I visit twice a month. A shame what parts of it have become under liberal rule.
Are you saying the $1,300 number used in the story was for a family of 10?
I’m a Vietnam vet & I have no use for `homeless vets’. Help one out one time & they think you are now their personal cash cow.
Especially the same ones at the same street corner with the same hand lettered sign.
Yes that table is amount per person per month.
Based on the numbers, that would be right.
$130 X 10 = $1300 monthly
I have never paid that much a month to feed a large family, and I could afford a lot more. These people obviously don't care since it's someone else's money.
I used to be on a frugal board and there was always a $20 feed a family of four for $20/wk challenge. It generated a lot of good ideas. Don’t know that it could do that today but with a bit more it’s doable.
What chaps my hide is EBTs can now be used at restaurants. At least back in the day food stamps was limited to certain basic grocery products.
Whatever happened to cooking at home to stay on budget or is that only for us taxpayers? I’ve told this before but anyhoo - there isn’t a Schlotzsky’s sandwich place near here but I can make 5 homemade sandwiches (minus the genoa salami because it’s not sold here and not missed taste wise) for the price of one restaurant bought. Same with over priced take out pizza and fried chicken. Restaurant bought eight piece fried chicken, one family side and rolls is $17. That would make a boatload of homemade chicken. I’ll stick to making sweet and sour pork over rice tonight for around $1.25/serving.
I have said for years that food stamps should be limited to to aisles in the grocery store.
Fresh meats
Fresh Fruit & veg
Fresh dairy
No bread
No frozen
No housewares
No diapers
No packaged food
No tobacco or alcohol
No soaps, cleaners or convenience items
If people want those things then they should get a job and pay for them themelves
Note there is nothing wrong with any of the banned items but if you are on assistance then then you should be eating good foods not crackers and Vienna sausage. At the same time there is lots of good food that could be bought in those three areas
This would end piles of abuse in the system.
...food stamps...
any system that allows you to buy canned chili
but prohibits you from buying toilet paper
is doomed to failure.
Some schools carry free lunches through the summer.
“the typical number is about 130 bucks per person per month.”
The AVERAGE number is about 130 bucks per person per month.
The standard is about $200.mo per person without other income.
An average includes people with significant income who still receive some benefit. IE: a neighbor on SS receives about $25/mo in food stamps.
How else can those gentle giants get the swell Nike shoes?
$1300 isn’t that just one of Mooch’s lunches?
Heavy minority presence.
Right this group isnt true. Maybe its by percentage of population.
gee maybe Uncle Phil could throw a billion to the poor in Oregone rather than pad the Duck football team....
I regularly go thru the Safeway discount meat bin looking for bargains...
Mississippi is becoming an incredibly drug addled society with lots of crime....
Anyone who went to college back in the day without mommy and daddy's money got by just fine on ramen noodles, generic sodas, and turkey franks on cheap white bread, averaging about 60-70 cents per meal even at today's prices. A box of Kraft mac n cheese is still about a dollar, and feeds 2-3 kids. That's 33 cents per meal. Bananas are still about 40 cents per pound. PBnJ sandwiches are still about 30-40 cents each, especially if you buy the larger jars. If you're budget conscious, you can feed a family of 4 easily for $600/mo... and usually, budget-conscious eating is healthier than the common American diet of fast food and pizza and chips.
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