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  • Less than $2 a meal | A reporter takes the Food Stamp Challenge

    06/01/2007 5:27:07 PM PDT · by Huntress · 128 replies · 2,233+ views
    Kansas City Star ^ | Jill Wendholt Silva
    Can you eat for $5.54 a day? Stop off for just one fancy latte on your way to work or grab a burger and fries for lunch and youÂ’re likely to blow through that amount, the maximum food stamp benefit for a single person, and go hungry for the rest of the day. IÂ’ve never been on food stamps, so I donÂ’t really know what itÂ’s like to be hungry. Nor do assorted members of Congress and governors, so hunger relief advocates across the country are challenging us to step up to the plate. They want us to feel, if...