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Once again, SNAP is a political football: And Americans suffer for it
The Hill ^ | 05/19/2023 | LYNDON HAVILAND

Posted on 05/19/2023 12:19:17 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

What college kid on a survey is not going to answer “I need more food”


21 posted on 05/19/2023 1:01:37 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
and nearly 40 percent of all faculty at New Mexico’s higher education institutions don’t have enough food to eat.

Are they including grad students who teach classes as faculty here? Then the problem is that they are either unpaid or get an education plus a small stipend for their work. If they are only counting full instructors or professors, then I call BS.

22 posted on 05/19/2023 1:05:10 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
We’ve known about the problem of food insecurity among U.S. college students for a while.

Any issues with tattoo insecurity?

23 posted on 05/19/2023 1:10:32 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Garbage men will tell you they see the most food wasted in the welfare neighborhoods.


24 posted on 05/19/2023 1:13:19 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

$2,000 iPhone they can afford. Tattoos, drugs, salon visits, NetFlix, etc.


25 posted on 05/19/2023 1:48:47 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: willk

I’m looking at zillow and not seeing hugely expensive real estate all over Albuquerque. What are the faculty spending their money on?


26 posted on 05/19/2023 2:15:47 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: DIRTYSECRET

This is just The Hill providing free advertising for the welfare industry.


27 posted on 05/19/2023 3:11:22 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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...nearly 40 percent of all faculty at New Mexico’s higher education institutions don’t have enough food to eat.

These are the people teaching others?

28 posted on 05/19/2023 3:41:11 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: willk

“nearly 40 percent of all faculty at New Mexico’s higher education institutions don’t have enough food to eat”
There is no faculty in higher education that doesn’t make at least 40k.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/2021/06/01/college-professor-salary/
The lowest category in this chart is 68k.
“Reporters” are clearly what you get if you take the stupidest people you can find, and give them 10 pounds of crack and a laptop.


29 posted on 05/19/2023 4:16:50 PM PDT by brookwood (To acheive equity, the percentage of whites in prison must equal the percentage of blacks in prison)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Stop buying drugs cigarettes and booze


30 posted on 05/19/2023 4:29:05 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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Rice and beans-a complete protein. Confine the EBT cards to that only.


31 posted on 05/19/2023 5:20:25 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ChicagoConservative27

New Mexico 30 - 33% Obese... not just overweight but obese. But New Mexico is not as bad as sum. Why was the US high in COVID? Because Obesity is a co-morbidity for COVID, just as it is for some other diseases.

The problem in the US is not that we don’t get enough food. The problem is we choose to eat the wrong things (me includied with a Mtn Dew beside my laptop).


32 posted on 05/19/2023 5:39:45 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h g)
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Faculty hungry?

Lay off 90% of administration staff, any non-academic dean, hire instructors as full time workers, not adjunct gig workers.


33 posted on 05/19/2023 5:43:42 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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Ask anyone who has ever delivered food to the “needy” in the US - much of the food gets “thrown out.”

We have a major surplus of food - if you go hungry in the US it is your own fault.

34 posted on 05/19/2023 5:43:49 PM PDT by Clemenza
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I had a box of spinach omve or my go to meal. rice n chunky soup for 2 days.


35 posted on 05/19/2023 5:46:34 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“More than half of all students, and nearly 40 percent of all faculty at New Mexico’s higher education institutions don’t have enough food to eat.”

40% of NM’s college faculty are going hungry?

I’m very very dubious about this number.


36 posted on 05/19/2023 6:31:13 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t just add a (where appropriate) work requirement to SNAP add an appropriate ‘BMI or some such’ over/under- nourished requirement. Hire Moochelle’s school lunch defining team to set (and defend) the rules. Too fat by their rules and SNAP turns into SNA-FU for what it provides. Don’t like those limits? Spend your own $ on what’s not covered. Get your $ legally or learn that all prison food is SNA-FU. Don’t know how to get $ legally? Ask a taxPAYER instead of a taxSPENDER! Thus taxing back all that old taxPAYER provided RICH FOOD off the latter, who had been banking it OVER their beds. [Those of us who managed to get fat on our own post-tax $ are just, possibly misguided, preppers, fearing the uniparty’s next physical bank crash and famine more than the risk of heart disease, etc.]


37 posted on 05/20/2023 12:16:51 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Once again, the leftist media plays their stupid leftist games at budget negotiating time.


38 posted on 05/20/2023 1:46:01 PM PDT by skeeter
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