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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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Understood, but the Legislature does not have to fund the addiction.
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I believe your statement should be amended to if the community is greater than 65% minority.
I buy my groceries at Wal-Mart. It is not uncommon to have an Hispanic family of three, four, or five in line ahead, using EBT cards, and cannot speak English. I will occasionally translate for the clerk, but my Spanish is poor, mostly aided by Latin language in my youth.
It doesn’t tell the ‘true’ story because states are not uniform. It does show that if California, Texas, New York and Florida were ran more like Wyoming huge savings could be achieved. Going on food stamps has become far too acceptable. We should never have instituted such a system.
Yes it is and I know that. I just find this kind of thing misleading. Here is a better graphic.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/28/us/20091128-foodstamps.html?_r=0
“”It doesn’t tell the ‘true’ story””
Of course it does, it’s why they use per capita because the size of populations all vary. This is not complex.
I'm sure their problems will be resolved any day now. After all, they just re-elected Thud.
Be proud, Republicans!
Exactly :-)
My cheap meal would be baked whole chicken legs, mashed potatoes, black eyed peas and some other fresh vegetable. Dirt cheap and truly delicious.
Except for the cost of gasoline, it is now cheaper to eat out EVERY meal. The cost of groceries is prohibitively high - 1200/month is 40/day. When you factor in prep time and clean up it is a better bargain to go out. Clearly restaurants get cut rates on food.
A Texas family told me they went on food stamps and a few days later became employed. They tried to get the food stamps cancelled but was told they were retro-eligible for 3 (or 6?) months so weren’t taken off the dole. Never heard of the retro thing. The family continued to use them even though dad had a 3 figure job.
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