Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

Guno צְבִי said:
Two decades ago, Sara Carlson, then a mother of three, was newly single because of a traumatic event, and the US’s food stamp program, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), helped her feed her children with free food supplies.

“I wouldn’t have been able to afford to live,” said Carlson, 45, who lives in Rochester, Minnesota, and now works as an operations manager for a wealth-management firm and serves on the board of Channel One Regional Food Bank, which works to increase food access.

While the food stamps helped her, the government cut her off after a couple years because she started making too much money, which meant she again had to worry about having enough food.

Now, nearly 42 million people around the country could face the same fate if the federal government shutdown continues and funding for Snap is cut off on 1 November.

Should funding run out at the end of the month, “we will have the greatest hunger catastrophe in America since the Great Depression, and I don’t say that as hyperbole”, said Joel Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America.

Snap supports working families with low-paying jobs, low-income people aged 60 years and older and people with disabilities living on a fixed income, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Snap participants generally must be at or below 130% of the federal poverty line. The average participant receives about $187 a month, the center reports.

news.yahoo.com

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
news.yahoo.com news.yahoo.com
Click to expand...
a large group of people are walking in a field with a large object in the middle .




:magagrin:
 
Just think, the Urban Dem-Slaves may come to like the idea of earning their food and having independence so much that they start voting against their Dem-Slave-Masters en Masse.

Freedom and self-respect are very, very Addictive! :)


-
 
Kurmugeon said:
Just think, the Urban Dem-Slaves may come to like the idea of earning their food and having independence so much that they start voting against their Dem-Slave-Masters en Masse.

Freedom and self-respect are very, very Addictive! :)


-
Click to expand...
No wonder they fast walked your sorry ass out of one of the national labs, well deserved
 
EdwinA said:
Neither is Obama. But he made sure Goldman Sachs and other favorite bankers got bennies during the bailouts; his DOJ gave them credit for around $3 for every dollar of their billions in fines for every $1 they 'donated' to La Raza, the Urban League, and other racist Democratic Party front mobs, deals like that, instead of collecting the money and putting it into the Treasury. Meanwhile banks that Paulson didn't like were allowed to fail.
Click to expand...
There was going to be no deal without giving the bankers their bonuses. Obama had no chance of getting that in a deal. He actually needed some bankers to work the mess out.
I thought then and still think he should have show trialed a few of them.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top