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Shock study shows how 42M recipients spend their food stamps - and they're not buying broccoli
Daily Mail ^ | May 20, 2024 | James Reinl

Posted on 05/20/2024 12:12:27 PM PDT by chickenlips

An alarming study has spotlighted how 42 million food stamp recipients spend their welfare handouts on ultra-processed junk food.

Coca-Cola, Sprite and other soft drinks are the most commonly-bought items via the $135 billion-a-year Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a new study says.

Candy, potato chips, frozen pizza, ice cream, cookies, and other ultra-processed food dominates the top 20 items, says a report from the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC).

Report author Matthew Dickerson says recipients spend 'spend significant portions of their allotments on junk food.'

These 'non-nutritious foods' include 'sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods, which can lead to poor health,' says the 35-page study.

The prevalence of junk food is another reason to trim SNAP, which has ballooned this century and gets recipients hooked on handouts, says Dickerson.

The research comes as Washington lawmakers debate the text of an updated farm bill, with Republicans gunning to cut some $27 billion worth of nutrition program funding over 10 years

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ebt; food; foodstamps; snap; wboopie; welfare
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Really what else did anyone expect as most of the recipients are not the sharpest knife in the drawer.


21 posted on 05/20/2024 12:23:54 PM PDT by Saintgermain ( )
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To: chickenlips

Ever visit an inner city, hole-in-the-wall grocery store?

You will see rows of items with dust covering them.

You go in and “buy” items and get cash instead. The owner rings up the sale as groceries with a markup for himself.

No goods change hands.

The gov’t rarely audits these stores to verify.


22 posted on 05/20/2024 12:24:31 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: chickenlips

23 posted on 05/20/2024 12:24:46 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“. One thing I’ve seen is people using food stamps to buy bottled water, and then empty the bottles onto the street and turn them in for the 10 cent deposit refund. Quite a waste of taxpayer money. “


And people laugh at the economic anomalies created by price controls in the old Soviet Union.


24 posted on 05/20/2024 12:24:55 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: chickenlips

Government hates the Junk-food industry but it’s the government that’s giving them more profits ,LOL


25 posted on 05/20/2024 12:26:00 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: chickenlips

26 posted on 05/20/2024 12:26:13 PM PDT by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: chickenlips

There should be a list of things you can’t buy with food stamps.


27 posted on 05/20/2024 12:26:16 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore…)
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To: chickenlips
I clip coupons and cut, cut, cut corners and get stuck in the check-out line behind grossly over-weight working-age people with food stamps buying streaks, soda, cookies, etc.

Maddening.

28 posted on 05/20/2024 12:26:30 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: chickenlips

Fresh food only should be the standard operating procedure with SNAP.
Democrats are buying votes with junk food addicts.

Provide cooking lessons and safety procedures, but no junk food.
If you give people an easy way out, they’ll take it, every time.
By banning junk food from SNAP benefits, we would be boosting the health of lower income folks, and almost certainly cutting back on costs, including health costs. People could still have burgers and fries, pizza and whatever else they want, they just have to make it themselves.
This would translate into less costs for health care, dentists, etc.
Congress would get rolled by the junk food lobby, though.


29 posted on 05/20/2024 12:27:35 PM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: McGavin999

They buy bottled water dump the water and sell the bottles for cash ,LOL


30 posted on 05/20/2024 12:27:41 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Reverend Wright

*Boxes of beans
Boxes of cheese
Boxes of powdered milk

Every month. Come on down and get your food handed to you.*

Can’t the EBT cards be programed for just these items?


31 posted on 05/20/2024 12:27:51 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: chickenlips

I was reading about the attention span of kiddies in school.

I think the sugar pipeline (soda, candy, cookies) of SNAP needs to be snapped off.

SNAP should probably cover WIC foods and chicken and beef too.


32 posted on 05/20/2024 12:28:16 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: chickenlips

“ Candy, potato chips, frozen pizza, ice cream, cookies, and other ultra-processed food dominates the top 20 items”

It’s the quickest way to colon cancer


33 posted on 05/20/2024 12:29:21 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: chickenlips
'Coca-Cola, Sprite and other soft drinks are the most commonly-bought items via the $135 billion-a-year Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a new study says.

'Candy, potato chips, frozen pizza, ice cream, cookies, and other ultra-processed food dominates the top 20 items, says a report from the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC).'


All of these are apparently allowed on SNAP, so maybe they have to clean up what they allow. But the problem with removing things like frozen pizza and other prepared foods is that even people who may be quite legitimately on SNAP don't have time to cook from scratch every day. I don't see a great difference between a frozen pizza and a bologna/cheese sandwich on white bread...
34 posted on 05/20/2024 12:29:53 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

If they did, the George Floyd riots would look like nothing.


35 posted on 05/20/2024 12:30:17 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: chickenlips
We don't even BUY most of those things anymore. Soft drinks especially, they have just gotten too expensive.

What was wrong with commodities? What is wrong with limiting allowed foods to essentials for a balanced diet? Why are we being obligated to pay for luxuries and non-essentials?

36 posted on 05/20/2024 12:31:40 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

LOL!!!!


37 posted on 05/20/2024 12:32:19 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: chickenlips

I don’t care if they don’t eat healthy! that’s their problem not mine.


38 posted on 05/20/2024 12:32:57 PM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: chickenlips

Back in the 1970s and 1980s when my mother and I went shopping; I would see people on food stamps buying things like steaks, crab legs and other expensive items. That used to burn me up. Here my mother was having to spend good money just buying the basics.


39 posted on 05/20/2024 12:33:00 PM PDT by Jean2
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To: butlerweave

I really think they need to go back to commodities. Beans, rice, powdered and canned milk etc.


40 posted on 05/20/2024 12:33:04 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore…)
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