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Some states require people who can't shop to have an Authorized Representative, who gets their own card for that purpose. And some allow you to add an Authorized User to your card, so a family member can take your card and shop. Said AU would, of course, not match name/ID to the card.
It's federal law that mandates that your family or household members are able to use your card. Trying to issue ID cards for all the people who are legally allowed to use the card would be yet another act of insanity. If an elder can't shop by herself and changes live in caregivers 4 times a year, how does she eat while waiting for the new ID cards for the people who shop for her are acquired.
Not to mention silly ideas. Like using food stamps at farmers markets. In my experience, farmers markets are DRASTICALLY overpriced relative to supermarkets.
Using food stamps at a farmers market is usually wasteful and inefficient, unless it's a farmers market that doubles the value for food stamp users, as some do. Right there should tell you that farmers markets are overpriced.
Here in AZ (and some other states) when someone uses their EBT/SNAP card at a Farmers Market they actually get double the purchasing power. Example: Use $10 EBT/SNAP and get $10 in Market Bucks = $20 in actual product.
So, wasteful or inefficient? Don't think so...
Here in AZ (and some other states) when someone uses their EBT/SNAP card at a Farmers Market they actually get double the purchasing power. Example: Use $10 EBT/SNAP and get $10 in Market Bucks = $20 in actual product.
So, wasteful or inefficient? Don't think so...
Yay. I wonder who gets to subsidize the generous discount to the freeloaders?
Yay. I wonder who gets to subsidize the generous discount to the freeloaders?
Market Bucks
SNAP/EBT customers can double their purchasing power at participating farmers markets. Every $1 of SNAP/EBT benefits spent is matched by $1 in Market Bucks — up to $10 every time a customer visits the market! Hunger Solutions Minnesota administers the program and has fliers and brochures available on their website.
The Twin Cities Mobile Market — a grocery store on wheels that brings fresh produce, meat, and groceries to 33 locations throughout the Twin Cities — also accepts SNAP/EBT and offers Market Bucks. See when it will be in your neighborhood on the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation's Find a Mobile Market Stop Near You webpage. Market Bucks
You only focused in specifically on soda and that's what I called you out on. Now you decide to widen it to all junk foods which is actually the real subject. As for believing the USDA, quit trying to force a political viewpoint on any discussion we're having (Fake news). I've not done that to you now have I?
I don't think the stats the USDA are presenting are "fake" though I do wonder how accurate they are when they'er talking specifically about non-SNAP users because I don't know where they're drawing the data sets from.
If you want to call someone out for focusing only on soda, I think you picked the wrong person. There is only one person involved in this discussion who has tried to make it all about soda.
Market Bucks
SNAP/EBT customers can double their purchasing power at participating farmers markets. Every $1 of SNAP/EBT benefits spent is matched by $1 in Market Bucks — up to $10 every time a customer visits the market! Hunger Solutions Minnesota administers the program and has fliers and brochures available on their website.
The Twin Cities Mobile Market — a grocery store on wheels that brings fresh produce, meat, and groceries to 33 locations throughout the Twin Cities — also accepts SNAP/EBT and offers Market Bucks. See when it will be in your neighborhood on the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation's Find a Mobile Market Stop Near You webpage. Market Bucks
That sounds like a really awesome program. Fresher food, money kept local, it sounds like a win-win.
I see an awful lot of people hating on farmers' markets, and I really don't understand why. When did buying fresh, locally grown food from small family-run operations become a bad thing?
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