RSS Feed
February 17th, 2016 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
According to media reports , the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expected to announce changes to their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that effect 46 million Americans using the supplemental assistance.
Retail grocers accepting food stamps would now have more options to purchase healthier foods because the new rules could instruct retailers to stock seven varieties in each food group, and at least three of the food groups would have to include perishable items.
One hundred and sixty-eight items would be included on the healthy list; such as a wider variety of dairy products, meats, and breads.
The new rules would also disqualify many convenience stores from being able to accept SNAP which is a financial blow to the industry. Convenience stores have maintained that they serve neighborhoods that are considered a food desert .
Those affects by this proposed change include working-age Americans who are the most dominant recipients of food stamps according to new demographics that show the dramatically slow recovery of low-wage US citizens.
Data research compiled and analyzed by economists at the University of Kentucky (UoK) shows that SNAP is received by an average of 1 in 7 Americans.
The findings also show that current standing of wager earners is at an all-time low in relation to the rising corporate profits; and these numbers are record breaking.
Timothy Smeeding, professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison commented: “A low-wage job supplemented with food stamps is becoming more common for the working poor. Many of the U.S. jobs now being created are low- or minimum-wage — part-time or in areas such as retail or fast food — which means food stamp use will stay high for some time, even after unemployment improves.”
Three years ago, the USDA ) reported that 101,000,000 Americans were on SNAP in the domestic US at a cost of $114 billion annually.
Shockingly, the Bureau of Labor (BoL) statistical data shows that in 2012 an estimated 97,180,000 full – time workers were accounted for.
The audit points out: “With the growing rate of food insecurity among U.S. households and significant pressures on the Federal budget, it is important to understand how food assistance programs complement one another as a safety net, and how services from these 15 individual programs may be inefficient, due to overlap and duplication.”
Shockingly, “food-stamp use rose 2.8% in the U.S. in April from a year earlier, with more than 15% of the U.S. population receiving benefits.”
Related Posts
Source Article from http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OccupyCorporatism/~3/H4d6ykR-Tds/
Posted in 
Tags: 
