Narrowing down.

Mik

Food stamps were essentially currency. Right after high school I was young and poor, and I'd buy them at fifty cents on the dollar from folks who wanted cigarette and pop money.

Cindy makes a good point, but there should be some middle ground. People can't be living on sugary drinks alone.

ShiroKuro

@Mik said in Narrowing down.:

Cindy makes a good point, but there should be some middle ground. People can't be living on sugary drinks alone.

No, but we need to provide the alternatives first, find the middle ground first, before we start putting more restrictions on what can be purchased with food stamps. Not the other way around.

Mik

The government can't provide healthy grocery stores in food desert locations. What we might look at is subsidizing grocery delivery for online shopping. Local stores already provide a SNAP-eligible set of products in their systems.

It would even be quite easy to provide suggested periodic delivery sets, taking into account individual likes and dislikes, along with recipes.

wtg

@Mik I thought the same thing about deliveries. After COVID especially, getting anything delivered locally got a lot easier.

Mik

The dividend in reduced healthcare over time would offset any expense.

wtg

@Mik - a deep dive into the availability of delivery services across the country. 2022 Brookings report.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/delivering-to-deserts-new-data-reveals-the-geography-of-digital-access-to-food-in-the-us/

ShiroKuro

Those are great ideas, @Mik

I'm sure the new administration is not going to be interested in them. -_-

Daniel

Cindy +1

People on SNAP do not have adequate transportation generally nor enough money even if they did to access healthy food let alone for an entire month.

Anything leading to more autonomy would be better and likewise anything leading to less autonomy would be worse, imo.

SNAP at least for an individual is not enough money to feed one person. Add to that the fact there are limited ways to buy food.

You are not talking about a population generally who can hop in a car and drive to any store they choose at any time they like on any day of the week.