Posted on 12/09/2015 10:43:49 AM PST by blam
Emily Badger
Deember 9, 2015
Toward the end of every month, hospitals in California see a curious uptick in admissions for hypoglycemia, the kind of low blood sugar that can affect diabetics.
The pattern, detected in a recent study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, is almost entirely driven by low-income patients.
The non-poor don't show much change in admissions at all.
The researchers suspect this trend may point to an underlying challenge for the poor: Food stamps, given out in a lump sum at the start of each month, run out for many families before they reach the end of it.
Where grocery stores in poor neighborhoods often report a rise in business when food stamps are electronically debited, hospitals may see the result when they run out.
That paper, led by Hilary Seligman, is one of several relatively new studies suggesting that the level of food assistance we currently give families — the average family of three gets $374 a month — isn't enough for a month's worth of meals.
A new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisors corralling this research shows that the short-term effects show up in some surprising ways. Amid the well-documented long-term effects of food stamps in alleviating hunger and easing poverty, week to week it looks as if the food stamp cycle may also influence hospital admissions, student test scores and even childhood behavior.
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This is baloney. I have known folks on food stamps. I have known 1 single mom particularly that, in college, had way more than she needed. She used to offer me, a poor college student, food (staples like milk, bread, hotdogs, etc.). I took milk once when it was about to expire before being opened.
Maybe things have changed. That was 20 years ago. But based on the black market for food stamps, I struggle to believe that they don't get enough. Might this article and study be a PR effort to precede a political campaign issue to be brought forth by a certain democrat? We shall see.
Proposal: Free Nutraloaf.
Anybody who's hungry can present himself at the local city or county lockup and get a free meal of nutraloaf and water, expertly prepared by the gourmet culinary staff employed there. If they want anything else to eat, they have to work for it.
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The only way food stamps can be used for these items is if the recipient "sells" the food stamps to someone else for cash, which does happen, usually at pennies on the $$$. Otherwise, one cannot purchase smokes or booze with food stamps.
We’re the ONLY country in the world with FAT “poor” people....
Agree with you 100%.
Would absolutely transform our society for the better - in the long run.
Wow, I lost my husband three months ago. He left my daughter & I nothing,I could not collect his social security because he was only 57. I could collect half,which honestly is not much & I could only make 12,000 dollars a year. That would not cover the mortgage & food for myself & my daughter. There will be no Christmas presents this year. But,I did go out & fine a job.That’s what you have to do, go to work.
That’s so racist. lol
Stop hating Him solely because he is black!
Then we can end food stamps and welfare for all the millions of Americans they've forced onto welfare for lack of employment opportunities
They weren't forced onto welfare. Obamacare freed them from the need to have a job and now they can live as an artist or writer (and drink cocoa in their pajamas) without having to worry about health insurance all the time! Such a blessing! That other stuff about eating - well, you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
My son worked as a cashier in a grocery store. The old stories about EBT buying steaks and getting into a Cadillac are just urban legends. They mostly buy pre-packaged meals and things like pizza rolls. They buy a lot of meals that can be resold.
They also buy a lot of cigarettes with cash.
A better way would be to have a government-run soup kitchen that dispensed the recommended daily caloric intake. If the food stamp people want to eat, they can line up three times per day. They don’t have anything else to do.
By the way, it doesn’t have to be particularly tasty food. Just basic nutrition.
Just wait until Trump cuts of Food Stamps and all other welfare programs.......If you want to eat go to WORK!!
Or they blow the money at the first of the month with the “yeah, look how much we have!” and run out at the end of the month.
But lack of planning and self-control is correlated with poverty.
Years ago, when my x-wife and I were poor newlywed college students, my x-wife went grocery shopping with our neighbor.
When I was helping unload the groceries, I almost had a heart-attack when I saw this massive rump roast in our bags. It was way out of our price range. I sputtered that we would have to take it back to the store — no way could we afford that.
My x-wife laughed and told me that our neighbor saw her picking through the cheap cuts, felt sorry for her, and bought the roast for us with her food stamps.
Every dollar you give gratis to a poor person is a dollar of his own that he can spend on things that aren’t to his immediate benefit. The able-bodied poor in this country aren’t poor because of circumstances, but because of their own emotional immaturity and lack of self-discipline, combined with the squandering of the considerable resources that were spent in trying to educate them.
Take away the cards and give them big bags of rice and beans and a big block of cheese.
Social Security is evil. This constant robbing of present day workers to fund the empty accounts of retirees must end. It’s destructive and dishonest.
Give a man an EBT card and he eats for less than a month.
Teach that same man how to catch stray cats and he eats for life.
My father does charity work on a weekly/monthly basis for a local organization that served the poor. He used to take meals and food to families "in need". After 5 weeks, he had to request another assignment from them. He said he would no longer take meals and food to people who lived in nicer houses, had newer and bigger TVs, and drove nicer cars than he did. The last straw was the large hot meal he took to a family in a nice neighborhood, with a Cadilac in the driveway, a 60" LED TV in the living room and had to wait for the husband to finish his conversation on his I-phone. He said, if it happened again, he would divert to a house hold that seems "more in need", like his own or his children's.
so....not giving them unlimited food-stamp spends raises the cost of health care for all of us? Oy vey.....
Welfare, WIC, food-stamps, what-have-you. They were supposed to be a safety net, not a frickin’ hammock.
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