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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore Americans are going hungry amid economic crisis -- and many can't get help
The current economic crisis means rising demand for food stamps. While Congress has passed additional benefits for some recipients, a large percentage of the poorest households did not get an increase. Meanwhile, many people, from college students now at home to those at high-risk for COVID-19, are facing new complications in accessing their benefits. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
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More Americans are going hungry amid economic crisis -- and many can't get help (Original Post)
Newest Reality
Apr 2020
OP
They're dragging their feet getting more direct payments to the American people
duforsure
May 2020
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dalton99a
(81,515 posts)1. Kick
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)2. K&R Thanks for posting.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)3. You are welcome!
duforsure
(11,885 posts)4. They're dragging their feet getting more direct payments to the American people
But got their billions to the big corporations with little over site , or spending requirements . Many people are going without now, and need money now to survive this. What's wrong with Congress dragging their feet getting this done now. Is this what trump wants to do , force us into bankruptcy? Sure looks like it. This will only cause us too get closer to a depression very , very soon.
Hav
(5,969 posts)5. And at the same time,
farmers are hurting, tons of food get destroyed and livestock like chicken get killed without any purpose because they cannot sell their products.
It should be way easier to address these problems than a major pandemic. You can distribute food but you cannot give life back to the dead.