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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When my father died my brother and I were 5 and 2 years old.
This was in the Great Depression.
She managed for about 5 years with family help(no rich relatives) and then went to work and we did okay.
She loved work,never remarried,and retired at 70 with a decent pension.
This too shall pass.
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Far as I can tell, all these electronics are turning most of our young people into mindless zombies. All they want is to stroll around eating junk, listening to music, texting their friends, playing games, and drinking soda. Any suggestion that they do any reading, writing, school work, house work, or errands is just offensive to them. Just leaving the house nowadays freaks me out because everywhere I look, it seems like everyone under 40 (and some over) is staring down at the little device in their hands.
I am so very sorry for your loss. Hugs to you and your daughter. Prayers for both of you.
Cutting more than half of government positions and spending will be the first step toward a solution, by the way. The next step would be the repeals of state and local regulations and eliminations of fees.
“Easy solution, put 1/4 of the amount on their EBT card every week instead of doing it once a month.”
“Pretty aggressive on how you want to pay me my money! Who put you in charge of my money!? How am I supposed to survive on only $90 a week when before I was getting $360!? You sound like one of those rich one percenters just trying to keep me down.” (Okay - now I’ll be going back over to DU. /S)
Pregnant, Smoking, Pajama Pants.
PSPP--HaHaHa!
The fact is that food stamps, like all government programs, has become political and out of control.
When welfare tightened up, the Democrats decided to use food stamps and Social Security Disability to buy votes.
Now, the examination of the people receiving this money, has become negligible.
Many people capable of working just apply for these programs.
Every dollar that these people receive is a dollar taken from somebody who is working so that they have less. Even Obama’s printed money hurts the people who are working because it raises the price of everything.
If a person receives food stamps, then that person owes something to the people who work to provide that food stamp money.
There appear to be many houses to be torn down and much garbage to be picked up.
I saw it firsthand. Steaks, raw oysters, shrimp, (I’ll admit, I did not see lobster), and a cart full of groceries. Left at the same time as these people and watched them put those groceries away in a Cadillac Escalade with high dollar rims on it.
A lot of them get sold at less than face value for cash that can buy things food stamps can’t.
So sorry for your loss. God bless you.
It’s hard to live on $12k, but it can be done. Second-hand clothes, day-old bread (or home-baked), growing veggies in pots on the patio, using 2 crockpots to cook a week’s meals all in one day and freeze them —is how I do it.
Add my prayers, and my admiration of your courage.
Wow! I had no idea that the money was available a minute after midnight. Maybe they ought to make it available at 6 am instead just to get some of these slugs out of bed early.
Well you guys just ruined it for me. I only got it on facebook and when I saw this article I googled for it since I thought was appropriate. I didn't read the article, was clueless and wish I had stayed that way. I was really hoping someone had the nerve to do that because yes, steak is for taxpayers and rarely for most of us taxpayers.
“I was really hoping someone had the nerve to do that —”
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Me too.
The problem today is that if anyone did it they would be virtually pilloried by the press,and maybe the law. The leeches in society have strong backing in the media.
It is very discouraging.
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Sorry!
a gal I know worked at Trader Joe’s in Boston for years.
One day two women dressed to the nines came in to grocery shop. Both had very expensive handbags and as I was told they were dressed so well they looked like they could not possibly be EBT users.
Well, apparently my friend looked surprised when the EBT were pulled up and these two went ape -it on her. They yelled at her, screamed for the manager and made a total scene.
The friend of mine was in tears, the manager just stood there being his best contrite hat in hand routine. When these two jerks finally had enough fun giving them a hard time they left.
The girl explained she was just taken aback when two very well dressed women whipped out the cards. Who wouldn’t be? Its not like she said anything but the two goons saw an opportunity or felt ‘ Dissed ‘.
What a country.
Don’t hand out food stamps, hand out rations enough for each family member to have a months worth of meals. Powdered mild, butter, bread, peanut butter, beans, rice, bagged oranges and such.
When Food Stamps first came out there was a lengthy list of items that they could and could not be used for. I remember the poster hanging in a local grocery back in the early 1970’s.
Apparently they rules are gone or no longer enforced.
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