re: #193 Eclectic Cyborg

I started digging into this SNAP thing earlier because I had some time to kill.

One article I looked at noted that most of the people losing benefits are able bodied adults who could otherwise work except that in some cases, due to a lack of formal education, undiagnosed mental illness or simply general economic factors, they can either not find a steady job or not find one that offers enough hours to meet the requirements.

So you can in part blame our service economy that’s packed full of part-time, temporary and contract jobs for this.

A few years ago in NYC someone who made minimum wage could qualify for SNAP.