Food Stamps Aren't a Substitute for Work. They're How Low-Wage Workers Avoid Hunger.

[turbinetree]

KALENA THOMHAVE MARCH 28, 2018

Most adults on SNAP are workers, but they turn to the program when they’re between jobs or making too little.


Sarah Ormbrek’s life used to be a lot more uncertain. She didn’t always have a job. She didn’t always have transportation. And she didn’t always have a home for herself and her son. But thanks to the largest anti-hunger program in the country, she could generally rely on having food. During the time of her life when money wasn’t always a constant, “SNAP,” she says, “I could always depend on.”

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly called food stamps, works that way by design, with the intention that low-income people should be able to count on the program whenever they need it. Unlike other social service programs with long waiting lists, SNAP is available to anyone who is eligible. As such, it helps reduce hunger for over 40 million Americans by supplementing their grocery bills each month.

Homeless in Wyoming in the early 2000s, Ormbrek was able to get housing through the Section 8 program, alongside her SNAP benefits and Medicaid for her and her son. Housing, food, and medical stability, as well as child care assistance, enabled her to go to school and get her nursing license.

But then she had to leave Wyoming to escape an abusive situation. She moved to Ohio in 2004—“and I had to start all over,” says Ormbrek. “I ended up back on SNAP.”


http://prospect.org/article/food-stamps-arent-substitute-work-theyre-how-low-wage-workers-avoid-hunger


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[Arkansas Granny]

1. To hear the right wingers talk you would think that the only people who receive SNAP benefits

are able bodied adults who are too lazy to work. The facts tell another story.

SNAP eligibility rules require that participants be at or below 130% of the Federal Poverty Level. Recent studies show that 44% of all SNAP participants are children (age 18 or younger), with almost two-thirds of SNAP children living in single-parent households. In total, 76% of SNAP benefits go towards households with children, 11.9% go to households with disabled persons, and 10% go to households with senior citizens.

According to demographic data, 39.8% of SNAP participants are white, 25.5% are African-American, 10.9% are Hispanic, 2.4% are Asian, and 1% are Native American.

https://www.snaptohealth.org/snap/snap-frequently-asked-questions/