1 mil Americans to lose food stamp benefits in the fall
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A side effect of the improving economy: About 1 million needy people will lose food stamp benefits starting this fall.
That's a new estimate by a left-leaning think tank, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which is urging Congress to change a federal law that limits how long someone can receive food stamps when they are out of a job.
Under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, most adults without children can receive food stamps for only three months unless they are working or attending a job training program at least 20 hours a week.
The three-month period was designed in the mid-1990s as a compromise between lawmakers who wanted a safety net and those who wanted to give beneficiaries an incentive to work.
But during the recession, most states got a waiver of the three-month cap because unemployment surged.
Today, 42 states still have full or partial waivers from the cap, according to numbers from the Agriculture Department, which coordinates the federally-funded SNAP program.
This is gonna be messy and give it to the people who need it most. Source
Also this thread isn't a threat or something offensive towards users, so don't come up to me and use your excuses.
Everyone should have access to food. We have the technology and the resources to make it happen. It's a human right, along with sanitation, health care and education.
Everyone should have access to food. We have the technology and the resources to make it happen. It's a human right, along with sanitation, health care and education.
I know right! But the republicans use the "economy" as an excuse to remove it.
This is sad...people who use food stamps are stigma'd as lazy and leeching off taxpayers due to the complaints of entitled, higher-class people who feel like their 'HARD EARNED MONEY!!!' shouldn't be used to help people buy food. Everyone who uses food stamps use them cuz they need them and they don't deserve to have them taken away.
This is sad...people who use food stamps are stigma'd as lazy and leeching off taxpayers due to the complaints of entitled, higher-class people who feel like their 'HARD EARNED MONEY!!!' shouldn't be used to help people buy food. Everyone who uses food stamps use them cuz they need them and they don't deserve to have them taken away.
I wouldn't say it's just higher class people; There's lower class people that think this way.
People on food stamps may need them.. But in comparison to other countries, Americans are SUPER LAZY .. if you open your legs MORE then DO REALIZE you (man and woman) will need to WORK MORE.. That part time job and excuse of "i seriously need the help" isnt cutting it boo boo. Work more, make more.. Babysitter? boo boo work more again to afford day care. bye
That tax return check isnt worth it and close yo legs boo and do it for yourself and for those children.
People on food stamps may need them.. But in comparison to other countries, Americans are SUPER LAZY .. if you open your legs MORE then DO REALIZE you (man and woman) will need to WORK MORE.. That part time job and excuse of "i seriously need the help" isnt cutting it boo boo. Work more, make more.. Babysitter? boo boo work more again to afford day care. bye
That tax return check isnt worth it and close yo legs boo and do it for yourself and for those children.
I think if you were to be simultaneously deported and permabanned, there would be world peace.
