Comments on: Food Stamps, Poverty, and the Budget http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/food-stamps-poverty-and-the-budget/ Facts, Thoughts, and Commentary Wed, 22 May 2013 12:57:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rima Regas http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/food-stamps-poverty-and-the-budget/#comment-254566 Rima Regas Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:33:54 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=5971#comment-254566 There is nothing to disagree with you here, Jared. SNAP, Food Stamps, whatever you want to call it, should be made available to more people, and the amounts allowed per family should be increased. Food prices are high and about to get more expensive due to the drought. No citizen, young, middle aged or old should be hungry and we have a lot of hungry people. Recent study reports I saw here and there show that there are many more children who are hungry since the start of the recession. So, if anything, the safety net is missing people and that is a shame.

One thing no one ever brings up is that you cannot buy necessities such as toilet paper, shampoo, toothpaste and other things everyone needs. That could easily be corrected since all the POS systems where people use their food stamp cards are able to distinguish between the various types of purchases. Why those items are not allowed is beyond me. So, next time ya’ll donate food for the hungry, please include some toiletries.

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