study shows how 42M recipients spend their food stamps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Exactly. Growing up, we couldn’t afford that stuff.

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My parents were quite poor when I was a young kid and we never had any of this stuff in the house.

In the 90s they started having a little extra money and that is when they started drinking soda and eating Snackwells and getting fat.

There are plenty of cheap healthy foods. And does not take much time to peel and slice a couple of carrots or cook some oatmeal. People just don’t wanna and our society is getting weaker and less healthy. Time to cut off the supply, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

Really? A bunch of bananas is like $1.74. Chips are like $5.99.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the snap benefits be limited to vegetables, pasta or meat?

What would be super helpful is for the working parent with SNAP to be able to go into the grocery store and buy a hot, roast chicken out of the case - but that's not allowed. So healthy-ish prepared foods are a no-go, but the soda is a go (because the sugar industry, who DONATES TONS OF MONEY TO POLITICIANS, wants it).

[Anonymous]

What is this regressive, cruel, right wing nonsense?

"SNAP is good for local economies – each dollar in federally funded SNAP benefits generates $1.79 in economic activity."

“children in families receiving SNAP were significantly more likely to be classified as ‘well’ than young children whose families were eligible but did not receive SNAP.”

"There is strong evidence of SNAP’s effectiveness in alleviating food insecurity. Two studies included in the recent “Long-Term Benefits of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” White House Report demonstrate this point. Mabli and Ohls (2015) compared households’ state of food security before and after receiving SNAP benefits and found that “SNAP participation reduced the overall fraction of households that were food insecure and the fraction that were very low food secure by around 17 percent and 19 percent, respectively. "

https://frac.org/programs/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap/positive-effect-snap-benefits-participants-communities#:~:text=Economic%20Impacts&text=For%20example%2C%20SNAP%20is%20good,supports%20for%20low%2Dincome%20families.

SNAP is a fantastic program that has significantly improved access to food and childhood nutrition. Poor people should be allowed small edible luxuries like chips and soda just like you and I are. To suggest otherwise is heartless and inhuman. Shame on everyone spouting this horrible anti-poor filth in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Exactly. Growing up, we couldn’t afford that stuff.

+1
My parents were quite poor when I was a young kid and we never had any of this stuff in the house.

In the 90s they started having a little extra money and that is when they started drinking soda and eating Snackwells and getting fat.

There are plenty of cheap healthy foods. And does not take much time to peel and slice a couple of carrots or cook some oatmeal. People just don’t wanna and our society is getting weaker and less healthy. Time to cut off the supply, IMO.

^^ all of this.

Why does the fed gov allow this to happen? It’s really not right at all. I am all for helping people (especially disabled people and families with kids) get food. It’s something we should do, no one should be hungry in our country. But this is a travesty. This program actually harms people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Junk food is cheap. Read the book $2 a day. Fascinating. A bag of chips is more filling than fruit or vegetables.

I want to know the methodology. The first thing I did was look up this organization which is a conservative small government org.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

^ Disinformation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is this regressive, cruel, right wing nonsense?

"SNAP is good for local economies – each dollar in federally funded SNAP benefits generates $1.79 in economic activity."

“children in families receiving SNAP were significantly more likely to be classified as ‘well’ than young children whose families were eligible but did not receive SNAP.”

"There is strong evidence of SNAP’s effectiveness in alleviating food insecurity. Two studies included in the recent “Long-Term Benefits of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” White House Report demonstrate this point. Mabli and Ohls (2015) compared households’ state of food security before and after receiving SNAP benefits and found that “SNAP participation reduced the overall fraction of households that were food insecure and the fraction that were very low food secure by around 17 percent and 19 percent, respectively. "

https://frac.org/programs/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap/positive-effect-snap-benefits-participants-communities#:~:text=Economic%20Impacts&text=For%20example%2C%20SNAP%20is%20good,supports%20for%20low%2Dincome%20families.

SNAP is a fantastic program that has significantly improved access to food and childhood nutrition. Poor people should be allowed small edible luxuries like chips and soda just like you and I are. To suggest otherwise is heartless and inhuman. Shame on everyone spouting this horrible anti-poor filth in this thread.

It's money that the wealthy feel they're entitled to in the form of tax cuts, so screw the poor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Junk food is cheap. Read the book $2 a day. Fascinating. A bag of chips is more filling than fruit or vegetables.

I want to know the methodology. The first thing I did was look up this organization which is a conservative small government org.

Ok ignore the study but show us one from a source you trust with the true info?

How much is a bag of chips? I am more filled by fruit and veg than greasy chips. Chips are expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

The reality is that preparing healthy food is time-consuming, especially if someone is juggling two jobs or one job and childcare (e.g., getting kids to and from daycare, school, etc). It is exhausting to stand on your feet all day, then stand to cook as well as be present for your kids.

It effing sucks to not have money. My parents stressed over every meal as there were more mouths than portions. I grew up hating cooking because it = stress. Now I generally love to cook, but it took some years to get to that place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Exactly. Growing up, we couldn’t afford that stuff.

+1
My parents were quite poor when I was a young kid and we never had any of this stuff in the house.

In the 90s they started having a little extra money and that is when they started drinking soda and eating Snackwells and getting fat.

There are plenty of cheap healthy foods. And does not take much time to peel and slice a couple of carrots or cook some oatmeal. People just don’t wanna and our society is getting weaker and less healthy. Time to cut off the supply, IMO.

^^ all of this.

Why does the fed gov allow this to happen? It’s really not right at all. I am all for helping people (especially disabled people and families with kids) get food. It’s something we should do, no one should be hungry in our country. But this is a travesty. This program actually harms people.

We’re paying government to kill off citizens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is this regressive, cruel, right wing nonsense?

"SNAP is good for local economies – each dollar in federally funded SNAP benefits generates $1.79 in economic activity."

“children in families receiving SNAP were significantly more likely to be classified as ‘well’ than young children whose families were eligible but did not receive SNAP.”

"There is strong evidence of SNAP’s effectiveness in alleviating food insecurity. Two studies included in the recent “Long-Term Benefits of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” White House Report demonstrate this point. Mabli and Ohls (2015) compared households’ state of food security before and after receiving SNAP benefits and found that “SNAP participation reduced the overall fraction of households that were food insecure and the fraction that were very low food secure by around 17 percent and 19 percent, respectively. "

https://frac.org/programs/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap/positive-effect-snap-benefits-participants-communities#:~:text=Economic%20Impacts&text=For%20example%2C%20SNAP%20is%20good,supports%20for%20low%2Dincome%20families.

SNAP is a fantastic program that has significantly improved access to food and childhood nutrition. Poor people should be allowed small edible luxuries like chips and soda just like you and I are. To suggest otherwise is heartless and inhuman. Shame on everyone spouting this horrible anti-poor filth in this thread.

SNAP is great. But can you show us something that proves the link is incorrect?

Soda has no nutritional value whatsoever. None. Zero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

The reality is that preparing healthy food is time-consuming, especially if someone is juggling two jobs or one job and childcare (e.g., getting kids to and from daycare, school, etc). It is exhausting to stand on your feet all day, then stand to cook as well as be present for your kids.

It effing sucks to not have money. My parents stressed over every meal as there were more mouths than portions. I grew up hating cooking because it = stress. Now I generally love to cook, but it took some years to get to that place.

But soda is not any kind of meal. Neither are chips or ice cream or cookies.

[Anonymous]

How about this? Defund the government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

The reality is that preparing healthy food is time-consuming, especially if someone is juggling two jobs or one job and childcare (e.g., getting kids to and from daycare, school, etc). It is exhausting to stand on your feet all day, then stand to cook as well as be present for your kids.

It effing sucks to not have money. My parents stressed over every meal as there were more mouths than portions. I grew up hating cooking because it = stress. Now I generally love to cook, but it took some years to get to that place.

But soda is not any kind of meal. Neither are chips or ice cream or cookies.

I'm not defending the sodas (and stop with the other stuff, even poor people deserve a treat), but I am attacking a system that creates hurdles to purchasing healthy, prepared food and lowers barriers to soda.