What I'd like to do to improve the food stamp program

[Fumesucker]

27. So many of the ideas in this thread presuppose someone has available transportation

As well as refrigerator and freezer in addition to cooking facilities, utensils, spices, a sink to clean up in and so on.

If you don't have transportation at your beck and call, and much of poor America doesn't, a simple trip to the store can become an all day affair. One of my neighbors can't get a license because of a history of seizures, we don't have any sort of public transportation at all and the closest grocery story is four and a half miles away one way. That's a nine mile round trip which is three hours of a fairly brisk walk (carrying groceries for half of it) but there are no sidewalks and not even decent shoulders on a lot of the roads.

If you don't have a kitchen to cook in and a way to store fresh food it just becomes a liability that's likely to go to waste. Those of us with access to these things tend to take them for granted "Oh, everyone has a kitchen". No they don't, someone I befriended was living in a motel room with a mini fridge that maybe got down to 60F and a worn out microwave. This person was on food stamps and the only transportation they had was a bicycle I gave them.