Food Stamp Participation Reaches Lowest Level in Nearly a Decade

Are you sure those are participation numbers and not how many people died each month due to not getting food stamps?

I bet you were wearing your white kkk hoodie thing when you typed that out

38 million is low???

Holy shite...

38 million and I get in line behind a 23 year old blimp buying 2 large bags of Lays potato chips and a 2 liter Coca-Cola with her EBT card.

There is a regulation where food stamps are more easily available in areas where unemployment is higher within states. With the financial crisis most states opted to open it up to everyone.

In the past couple of years states have opted to start cutting back on the counties where its easy to qualify, so its the states that are driving this (even though its a federal program).

And as you might guess, cali decided to move back this decision to sometime next year, enabling an incremental, not total, but an incremental 800,000 remain on the rolls when they should have pulled them off. Betcha NY, IL, etc are probably right there with them.

The key point here is that the state sets a timeline and you either get a job, school, training, or get off food stamps. They are not suddenly getting jobs, THEY HAD JOBS, cash jobs, and just get removed from the rolls when the timeline runs out.

Amazing, you make it more difficult to receive assistance and then fewer people receive it, I'm shocked SHOCKED at these results.

Meanwhile, actual poverty is increasing in Louisiana.

So, 9 years ago, so basically resetting the landscape prior to Obama?

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New Orleans has the highest poverty rate among America’s 50 largest metro areas at 18.6 percent. But several Louisiana cities had higher rates of poverty, led by Opelousas at 26.3 percent.

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Democrat leadership in Louisiana. It’s their goal.



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The poverty rate in the Lake Charles region plummeted 8 points – from 20.8 percent in 2016 to 12.9 percent in 2017.

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Actually, I would love it if nobody needed food stamps.

But they way to do that is not by making the qualifications so difficult.

Do it by actually reducing poverty. And the way to do that is by enacting policies that focus on the middle class, and not on the 1%.

Have a trickle up economy instead of a trickle down one.

I worked my way through college as a maintenance man for 141 HUD units, trust me, it gets traded for things other than smokes and booze. Definitely a currency.