Posted on 04/12/2015 8:29:02 PM PDT by yuffy
Foodstamp enrollment by able bodied childless adults in Maine (which has a conservative Republican governor) is down 80% after imposing a very modest requirement that recipients work at least 6 hours a week in a volunteer program. Of course, the media portrays this as an exercise in cruelty.
The food pantry here, just off the main drag in this neat college town, gets busiest on Wednesdays, when the parking lot is jammed and clients squeeze into the lobby, flipping through books left on a communal shelf as they wait their turn to select about a week’s worth of food.
The Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program is intended to be a supplemental food pantry, but a growing number of clients here and at pantries around the state have little else to rely on because of a change in state policy this year.
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They drive to the food shelf???
They ain’t hungry enough yet.
Mostly Somalians in Lewiston and Auburn. Some moved to Atlanta (another large Somalian community. Feds prolly have other programs for them.
Yet, the libbies scream about this in the leftist rags like Huffpo, when it’s helping people get jobs.
Thanks for the welcome PROCON.
Isn’t it cute how the food pantry calls them “clients?”
You’d be surprised at some of these cars parked outside these places. That said, there is a heckuva lot of walkin traffic, too. In the city where I worked before I retired you could see the illegal baby mama’s pushing carts up the road to the local Methodist food pantry, and on days when they weren’t there, they were at Publix cashing in their WICs certificates, etc. I guess with the amnesty, they’ll be getting their entitlements on EBT and from a crapload of EITC, enough to buy a car.
As long as they vote for Big Government and don’t care about corruption, that’s all that matters.
I’ve seen these Abwads at Walmart. Same age as me, no dependents living on minimum social security, Section 8, EITC for singles, etc.
When you can’t even volunteer 6 hours a week (how about at the senior center or food pantry) why should you be able to keep that SNAP money? It’s not like they’re ever gonna go work.
Actually I disagree thoroughly with this governor. 6 hours volunteer time a week is ridiculous. If someone is claiming government handouts because they are unemployed, they should be required to volunteer FORTY hours a week.
Maybe they’re ‘working off the books’ and don’t have time to give 6 hours a week to volunteering...
I foresee a lot of absentee fathers suddenly wanting to get to know thay chirrens again.
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