re: #209 Targetpractice

In other words, continue the subsidizing of people’s shitty wages through government help, but cut out the middle man by cutting checks instead of providing food stamps.

Read: Conservative groups and churches would get federal money to push their ideologies on the people least able to tell them to shove it.

Many poor people are unable to maintain checking accounts and have to rely on sleazy “check cashing” services which take a chunk out of their meager earnings, or they get paid with prepaid debit cards which incur a charge every time they are used.

It’s expensive to be poor.