Sentences with phrase «people food stamps»

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Lower GDP and especially recessions tend to mean higher spending as more people become eligible for unemployment benefits, food stamps, and other social programs.

The food - stamp program served 42.2 million people during the 2017 fiscal year, with many spending the benefits at supermarkets.

And why are we more divided, indebted and have more people on food - stamps (50 million) than ever before in our history?

Obama has already doubled the nubmer of people on food stamps by increasing the salaries earned so he can get the manimum number of lazy deadbeats on government welfare programs.

The whole people eat better on food stamps probably comes up because a lot of people on them sell them to wealthier neighbors in order to pay for things like doctors appointments, transit to get to their minimum wage job (or interviews), or too keep the lights on / pay rent.

Too many look the other way on the scams and Ponzi schemes of the rich, but are sancitmoniously outraged when a poor person gets one food stamp too many!

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

We have great things like food stamps (a horrible waste of tax dollars since majority of the people on them waste them, and could afford food if they did nt smoke, drink, or other things not needed for survival.)

I'd like to have a president who doesn't keep his money in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.I'd like to have a president who knows more people are on food stamps today because tax cuts for the rich did not create jobs and caused this country to go down the drain.

Why do «poor» people get to buy steak and lobster with food stamps, and non-poor people who actually work get to eat raman noodles?

These same people support wars while demonizing food stamps and universal healthcare.

White people are quick to bring up food stamps and government aid, thats nothing to the tax breaks yall recieve, wall stret crooks, medical crooks, wars for contract to buddies..

I «ll tell you what Gingrich might call our president the food stamp president but he is more for the poor people.

Republicans who want to deny food stamps, to people who need them.

There is a difference between helping those who can not help themselves and people who live off food - stamps, welfare, unemployment check without any intention of going out and getting a job.

Not only are its people more polarized than ever over Puerto Rico's status question — whether to become a sovereign nation, become a state of the U.S. or stay as it is; it is the most impoverished North American territory, with an external debt of over $ 7 billion, an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, 65 per cent of its people on federal food stamps and 38 per cent who have an income below the poverty line.

I don't think anyone would disagree with you that they want jobs and to make there own money but people work at Walmart and still need food stamps to survive and the Walton's make billions each year..

If 75 % of our membership here in the US meet these basic requirements that means that 4,125,000 people will not need food stamps for at least 3 months after losing a job.

I hear it all the time about those people on food stamps, «Well, they shouldn't HAVE kids they can not afford to feed!»

Their plan is to destroy ALL People programs from Medicare to SS to food stamps to public education to veteran healthcare and pensions to college grants to every single welfare program and the list goes on and on.

As opposed to enslaving people to the company and paying slave wages so that people have to supplement with food stamps.

More people on Welfare and on food stamps.

«When poor people get food stamps, they get mad,» Cone says.

I watch people on certain news networks laugh at food stamp recipients and people who need insurance.

«Don't try to hide it, because you're not alone — food stamps help feed one in seven people today,» says Dr. Mariana Chilton.

According to NFU's research, 67 % of people say food assurance stamps help inform their purchasing decisions, with Fair Trade certification proving the most influential among UK consumers.

The idea that it is okay because at least it gets people angry and ready to act is more than a little scary, as it conjures up images of the townsfolk storming the local school with their pitchforks and flaming torches; meanwhile, the villain is in Washington DC taking 6 cents from food stamps to fund 64 cents worth of new requirements for the schools.

And I see what people are buying on food stamps and I wouldn't call what they buy actual food so I won't shed a tear over that either.

To conduct the study, released Thursday, researchers evaluated food stamp data, the depository's distribution of food, and surveys of more than 114,000 people visiting agencies that work with the depository.

«The way you are going to pay for a child nutrition bill is by dipping into people's food stamps?

The food stamp increase that came last year was part of the stimulus for poor people.

1999 — 2000 FRAC obtains federal, state, and local administrative initiatives in food stamps to reverse the caseload decline among eligible people and make the program accessible to low - income working families.

People are losing their homes, and their jobs, in record numbers; unemployment is high and more people than ever need food stamps to get by (Newsweek say 59 % more families on food stamps in just the past 3 yPeople are losing their homes, and their jobs, in record numbers; unemployment is high and more people than ever need food stamps to get by (Newsweek say 59 % more families on food stamps in just the past 3 ypeople than ever need food stamps to get by (Newsweek say 59 % more families on food stamps in just the past 3 years.)

And to think that Congress was unable to come up with a six - cent - per - meal increase, which, if even if we'd gotten it, was going to come out of the mouths of people on food stamps.

An estimated 35.1 million people — about half of them children — used food stamps that month.

About 1.8 million people received food stamps that year.

But outside a food stamp office in Manhattan, food stamp recipient Oliver Briscoe said if people need food bad enough, they will go through the process.

Currently, people who have an AIDS diagnosis or «clinical symptomatic HIV illness» and meet the financial need requirements are eligible for HASA's package of benefits, which includes rental assistance, food stamps, enrollment in Medicaid, and transportation assistance.

According to city statistics, since 2007, the number of food stamp recipients rose by more than 700,000 people.

Interesting question, but I think that if you're not satisfied by the answers given, it is because you already know the right answer: indeed in the US, «middle class» means «hard working» while «lower class» has a clear pejorative connotation of «people who don't want to work, who live off state's aid, food stamps, or petty criminality».

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp program, provides financial assistance for purchasing food to low - and no - income people living in the UFood Stamp program, provides financial assistance for purchasing food to low - and no - income people living in the Ufood to low - and no - income people living in the U.S..

In one of the richest counties in NY, the number of homeless people, individuals receiving food stamps, children on free or reduced lunch has increased.

Nevertheless, New York state Sen. Joseph Griffo, R - Rome, has introduced a bill to bar poor people from using food stamps, also called SNAP benefits, in liquor stores, casinos or strip clubs.

This is an important investment because if we move people from food stamps to employment, not only are we helping their lives, we are reducing the need for government services.»

People purchasing groceries with food stamps will be exempt from the fee as well as those buying takeout food from restaurants.

Gov. Scott Walker announced plans this week to move forward with making Wisconsin the first U.S. state to drug test people applying for food stamps.

Nevertheless, Sen. Joseph Griffo has introduced a bill to bar poor people from using food stamps, also called SNAP benefits, in liquor stores, casinos or strip clubs.

Food carryout bags would be excluded, and people using food stamps or other food assistance benefits wouldn't pay the Food carryout bags would be excluded, and people using food stamps or other food assistance benefits wouldn't pay the food stamps or other food assistance benefits wouldn't pay the food assistance benefits wouldn't pay the fee.

This, along with other help specifically for poor people, such as food stamps and health - care benefits, goes to the people who need it most and not to anyone who happens to get a minimum - wage job.

«The logical implication of Cuomo's claim is that programs such as the EITC and food stamps for working people should be sharply curtailed, if not repealed.