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Probably because it is harder to qualify. My blind stepson is a single father raising three kids. His social security disability is enough to disqualify him for food stamps in Missouri.
Probably because it is harder to qualify. My blind stepson is a single father raising three kids. His social security disability is enough to disqualify him for food stamps in Missouri.
That very much depends on the state. Food stamps are a block grant program. States are free to throw their own money into supplementing the federal support, and quite a few do.
That very much depends on the state. Food stamps are a block grant program. States are free to throw their own money into supplementing the federal support, and quite a few do.
But when "states are free", they really are not. They have to provide a level of support similar to what states like Missouri are doing (or worse) so not to be too out of line with the most callous states. States are not free as long as there is free movement of people. Its a race to the bottom. Only the federal government has the power to really ensure we become a more compassionate society for the disabled.
Food Stamp usage through SNAP is now at a 7 year low.
Is this suppose to be a good thing? Where I live there is a constant request for donations. The food banks are begging and claim to running out out of food. The teachers spend their own money trying to help students who cannot afford school supplies and some who depend on the school for a meal. Locally there was a man arrested and sentenced to six months in jail for stealing a loaf of bread.
We continue to elect millionaires and billionaires who do not have the slightest awareness of what it is to do without food, or unable to pay for a doctor for a sick child, to be without heat in the winter, etc. Yet they legislate the tax laws to give money to those who have the most and pay for it by slashing aid to childern, the elderly, and poor.
If America is truly one nation under God how can these rich politicians act against the needy with a clear conscience?
My blind stepson is a single father raising three kids. His social security disability is enough to disqualify him for food stamps in Missouri.
That's because, according to our golf playing tax dodging commander in chief, your stepson is a taker.
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