re: Gov. Landry declares state of emergency over SNAP

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You telling me 20% of our population is too poor to buy their own shite?

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To be fair, Louisiana has gottten about 70k off the rolls since last year so there is progress.

And I think about half of SNAP in LA are kids the current deadbeat count isn't quite that high.

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nearly 793,000 Louisianians were on SNAP benefits


Excuse me!?!

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Yes, you read that right

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Thats not the majority getting snap. Also we have COA funded with millions, ain't they suppose to feed the elderly??

Show is the numbers from your database of all the 20-50 able bodied folks who are on snap..

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FWIW

For additional context, a 2023 USDA report shows the age breakdown of SNAP recipients nationally:
Children: About 39% of all participants.
Children under 5: About 11% of participants.
School-aged children: About 28% of participants.
Adults (age 18–59): 42% of participants.
Elderly (age 60+): 19% of participants

According to Gemini, LA data by age isnt publicly available in detail in LA but

Based on data from the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) for June 2024:
Children (under age 18): 45% of recipients.
In parishes with the highest number of recipients, such as East Baton Rouge and Orleans, children make up nearly half of the beneficiaries.
Adults: 55% of recipients.
Households with children: In 2023, 28.6% of Louisiana households with children participated in SNAP.
Households without children: In 2023, 12.7% of Louisiana households without children participated in SNAP.
Single-female parent households: 52.7% of these households participated in SNAP in 2023.
Married-couple households: 4.8% of these households without children under 18 participated in SNAP in 2023.

He should just give all those affected a fake tiger until their welfare is back.

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Folded like a lawn chair in a hurricane on this one.

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Gotta keep the trial lawyers and THEIR CLIENTS happy, I guess

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There is a work requirement in LA for 18-54 year olds w/o dependents but its only 80 hours per month

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20 hours a week is a joke. I was working 20+ hours a week in 10th grade.

No reason that an able bodied adult shouldn't be required to work a full time job with 35-40 hours a week if they want taxpayer handouts. And before the excuses about young kids start, LA has a childcare assistance program that subsidizes daycare costs for low income families.

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Mr. Governor, this isn’t an emergency and no one will starve. I didn’t vote for this. The SNAP program should be totally eliminated in favor of food pantries for truly destitute people.

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Any kind of food assistance program is actually a subsidy to the vast American food industry, to keep it solvent and in business. Besides that... when someone cuts off soft drinks, Coc-Cola and Pepsi, etc., send their lobbyists to make sure it's quietly added back or they donate to a challenger next election... because they don't like being left out of the stimulus package.

At the moment, with American farmers being put in bad positions by the tariff trade war... attacking SNAP and any of that is screwing the system up further.

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At the moment, with American farmers being put in bad positions by the tariff trade war... attacking SNAP and any of that is screwing the system up further.

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I don’t care. The entire SNAP program needs to end. The entire program has been plagued by waste, fraud, and abuse for years.

Also, given that most “food” purchased by the SNAP crowd is highly processed carb or corn syrup loaded junk, I think the impact on farmers will be minimal.

frick him