How Many People Around You Receive Food Stamps?

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Yglesias agrees w/ sys

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/09/snap_reform_give_the_poor_money_not_food_stamps.html

I've kind of started to lean that way, myself. It seems like it would lower food prices.

But what would it do to alcohol, cigarette, and drug prices?

[Rage Against the McKee]

Yglesias agrees w/ sys

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/09/snap_reform_give_the_poor_money_not_food_stamps.html

I've kind of started to lean that way, myself. It seems like it would lower food prices.

But what would it do to alcohol, cigarette, and drug prices?

Who cares?

[michigancat]

His point about having the option to cut back on food spending to purchase diapers was a very good point.

[Skipper44]

His point about having the option to cut back on food spending to purchase diapers was a very good point.

WIC tho

the car repair was a better example and I admit this statement rubs me the wrong the way

Free poor people from the shackles of food stamps and let people buy what they want with their money.

[michigancat]

His point about having the option to cut back on food spending to purchase diapers was a very good point.

WIC tho

the car repair was a better example and I admit this statement rubs me the wrong the way

Free poor people from the shackles of food stamps and let people buy what they want with their money.

yes, car repair is better, but it seems like you could eliminate a lot of inefficiency if you combined food stamps w/ WIC and just gave people cash.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

How much money should we hand out to people? From each according to their ability, To each according to their need?

[michigancat]

How much money should we hand out to people? From each according to their ability, To each according to their need?

Just convert the food stamp money to cash. Seems pretty simple.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

How much money should we hand out to people? From each according to their ability, To each according to their need?

Just convert the food stamp money to cash. Seems pretty simple.

I think if the recipients don't really need the money for food, we don't need to give it to them.

[Rage Against the McKee]

How much money should we hand out to people? From each according to their ability, To each according to their need?

Just convert the food stamp money to cash. Seems pretty simple.

I think if the recipients don't really need the money for food, we don't need to give it to them.

Reduce the benefit by 15% and then give it to them as cash.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

http://www.ksla.com/story/23679489/walmart-shelves-in-springhill-mansfield-cleared-in-ebt-glitch

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

http://www.ksla.com/story/23679489/walmart-shelves-in-springhill-mansfield-cleared-in-ebt-glitch

Racist.

[star seed 7]

http://www.ksla.com/story/23679489/walmart-shelves-in-springhill-mansfield-cleared-in-ebt-glitch

 

i'm very sure that rich people have never stolen from the american government!   

[Rage Against the McKee]

I hope Walmart eats the cost. The Federal government should not have to pay them back when the issue was brought to Walmart's attention and they chose to continue giving their food away. Even asking the government to pay them back is the equivalent of insurance fraud, imo.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Interesting study on food stamps.

Food stamps have become the second most costly means-tested program behind Medicaid, and its expansion is credited to both Republicans and Democrats.

Tanner traces the modern food stamp program back to President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the Food Stamp Act of 1964. Not until the presidency of George W. Bush, however, did the program increase dramatically, and the pace has only accelerated under President Barack Obama.

The 2002 and 2008 farm bills under Bush expanded eligibility in the program to the extent that noncitizens qualify. By the start of Obama’s presidency, there were 31.8 million Americans enrolled, up from 17 million in 2000.

Under Obama, enrollment has surged to almost 48 million. While some chalk up the increase to the recession, Tanner finds little evidence that is the case.

“Increases in both participation and spending were bigger during this recession than in previous ones,” he writes.

During the recession in the early 1980s enrollment only increased by 635,000, and spending rose by $124 million. In contrast, the latest recession saw enrollment jump by 12 million and spending increase by $30 billion.

“SNAP is no longer a program targeted at the poorest Americans who may need some temporary help, but it has become part of an ever-growing permanent welfare state,” the report said.

Nearly 17 percent of recipients have income levels above the poverty line due to weak eligibility standards. Furthermore, a majority of recipients (56 percent) are on the program longer than 5 years, and fewer than 10 percent are on food stamps for six months or less.

[Institutional Control]

Nice moderate post, jthtd.

[Rage Against the McKee]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/01/news/economy/food-stamps-families/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The benefit -- totaling $800 for four adults -- never lasts Lewis and her family a full month.

Really?

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/01/news/economy/food-stamps-families/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The benefit -- totaling $800 for four adults -- never lasts Lewis and her family a full month.

Really?

I don't think that can be right, can it? My family spends around $1000 a month on food, and we're hardly scrimping.

[Rage Against the McKee]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/01/news/economy/food-stamps-families/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The benefit -- totaling $800 for four adults -- never lasts Lewis and her family a full month.

Really?

I don't think that can be right, can it? My family spends around $1000 a month on food, and we're hardly scrimping.

How many are in your family? I really don't think there is any way my family of 2 spends $400 per month on food, but I don't really keep track. It's November 1. I might try to keep track of that this month to see just how ridiculous it is that this lady with enphysema and 3 daughters who live with her but can't work because they have children that they apparently can't leave with their mother and sisters to find a job can't feed themselves on $800 per month.

[Emo EMAW]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/01/news/economy/food-stamps-families/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The benefit -- totaling $800 for four adults -- never lasts Lewis and her family a full month.

Really?

Last month, Sewell landed a job as an audio technician.
The job paid $12 an hour, a lot less than the $25 he used to make before he was laid off.
Sewell asked his employer to lower his wages to $9 an hour instead.
Why? He did the math and found that $12 an hour was just enough to cause a reduction in his government benefits, and could cost him and his family its Medicaid coverage for health care.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/01/news/economy/food-stamps-families/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The benefit -- totaling $800 for four adults -- never lasts Lewis and her family a full month.

Really?

I don't think that can be right, can it? My family spends around $1000 a month on food, and we're hardly scrimping.

How many are in your family?

2 adults, 2 kids, 1 baby.

[Rage Against the McKee]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/01/news/economy/food-stamps-families/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The benefit -- totaling $800 for four adults -- never lasts Lewis and her family a full month.

Really?

Last month, Sewell landed a job as an audio technician.
The job paid $12 an hour, a lot less than the $25 he used to make before he was laid off.
Sewell asked his employer to lower his wages to $9 an hour instead.
Why? He did the math and found that $12 an hour was just enough to cause a reduction in his government benefits, and could cost him and his family its Medicaid coverage for health care.

Yeah, the whole article was a whole bunch of losers lined up who really want to get off of the government dole but really don't want to do anything that might actually make that happen.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

"We buy a lot of beans, rice and potatoes," said Sewell, who lives in Philadelphia. "Towards the end of the month, you're eating all the box stuff, and a lot more pasta with sauce."

The horror. I don't want to live in a country where the poor don't receive enough public assistance to buy steaks and organic produce! Why should they be treated differently?

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/01/news/economy/food-stamps-families/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The benefit -- totaling $800 for four adults -- never lasts Lewis and her family a full month.

Really?

Last month, Sewell landed a job as an audio technician.
The job paid $12 an hour, a lot less than the $25 he used to make before he was laid off.
Sewell asked his employer to lower his wages to $9 an hour instead.
Why? He did the math and found that $12 an hour was just enough to cause a reduction in his government benefits, and could cost him and his family its Medicaid coverage for health care.

Yeah, the whole article was a whole bunch of losers lined up who really want to get off of the government dole but really don't want to do anything that might actually make that happen.

We should consider reducing welfare even more and making it uncomfortable to be on it. Maybe there's be less "jobs Americans just won't do." It's worth a shot, right?

[Rage Against the McKee]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/01/news/economy/food-stamps-families/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The benefit -- totaling $800 for four adults -- never lasts Lewis and her family a full month.

Really?

Last month, Sewell landed a job as an audio technician.
The job paid $12 an hour, a lot less than the $25 he used to make before he was laid off.
Sewell asked his employer to lower his wages to $9 an hour instead.
Why? He did the math and found that $12 an hour was just enough to cause a reduction in his government benefits, and could cost him and his family its Medicaid coverage for health care.

Yeah, the whole article was a whole bunch of losers lined up who really want to get off of the government dole but really don't want to do anything that might actually make that happen.

We should consider reducing welfare even more and making it uncomfortable to be on it. Maybe there's be less "jobs Americans just won't do." It's worth a shot, right?

Well, the article was about food stamp benefits being reduced, actually. This deadbeat family is now going to be living on about $760 per month for groceries instead of the $800 they're used to.

[Brock Landers]

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/01/news/economy/food-stamps-families/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The benefit -- totaling $800 for four adults -- never lasts Lewis and her family a full month.

Really?

I don't think that can be right, can it? My family spends around $1000 a month on food, and we're hardly scrimping.

How many are in your family? I really don't think there is any way my family of 2 spends $400 per month on food, but I don't really keep track. It's November 1. I might try to keep track of that this month to see just how ridiculous it is that this lady with enphysema and 3 daughters who live with her but can't work because they have children that they apparently can't leave with their mother and sisters to find a job can't feed themselves on $800 per month.

How come the fathers of these recently and soon to be born kids can't help out?