re: #134 NJDhockeyfan

Excuse me if I misunderstood you. Where are all those jobs being created in the food industry? I haven’t read anything about that.

Let’s say that you’re a store in Appalachia, and 50% of the people in your area can afford your prices with some regularity, at least to buy staples and such there. The other 50% are too poor to do so, except in very small amounts on low-cost items.

If you provide food stamps for that 50%, they will spend a lot more money at your store. So, you will buy more products from your wholesaler, need a larger or more frequent truck visits to drop off your suppplies, and your store will be busier, so you might hire someone directly. Even if you don’t, the increased volume of your sales causes increased employment up the food chain, so to speak.

Multiply that by a thousand stores, and you’ve got a large number of jobs.

Do you understand?