 Since the recession, persistent unemployment has left middle-class life out of reach for millions of Americans. But few residents of Morris County, N.J., could have ever imagined they would end up on government assistance. Phyllis Tonnesen is on the front lines of the epidemic. She works for the Department of Human Services Office of Temporary Assistance. In her 27 years at the agency, she says this is the worst she's ever seen it. See the rest of the story at CNN Money - Living on food stamps in middle-class suburbia Previously: Could you live on $30 a week? | Witnesses to Hunger: A portrait of food insecurity in America | Childhood malnutrition has long lasting effects | The food stamp challenge: eating on $30 a week |
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The first thing required by the food stamp office is an application. Most counties have an online application process. The electronic application allows the process to get started the moment the application is submitted. Paper applications will be accepted, but the process will take longer than an electronic application. Most food stamp offices have computers available for applicants filling out electronic applications. Workers will be available on hand to answer any questions about the application you may have. :,
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Let's see there... he's making $15 an hour; assuming full time that's $600 a week times 50 weeks=$30,000 per year. With three kids the deductions would probably cancel the income tax.
She's specified as part time. Say 20 hours a week, $9 per hour. $180 per week, 50 weeks, $9,000 a year.
Sounds like $39,000 a year. I agree there is a problem, and that we *all* need to adjust our living habits, some more than others. Still, gross exaggeration and bad math is not only inexcusable in a "respected" news agency, it is also part of the overall economic problem!
I wish Bush jr. was in office so I could get more of those "stimulus": checks. Never got anything from the president before or after him. The only thing I keep forgetting is why Bush jr. tripled the size of the goverment with the lousy TSA when he was supposed to be in favor of limited goverment. That money could be used elsewhere. Remember, Bush knows "how hard you work to put food on your family." (Quote from his run in 2000.)
Maybe we need socialized food stamps. Everyone American gets $150 a month worth. We can let the chinese finance it so it is "free"
Edit: Every American
You can thank George Bush for this. He wrecked the economy and the middle class.
Please don't politicize a food blog.
And on a related note, I learned of this event this morning, and it completely disgusts me:
http://tomatobattle.com/denver/
most of the world population goes hungry, and we find ways of making a spectacle out of waste. Sometimes I really can't stand our race.
i'm with you truth but this event has this note:
All of the tomatoes used during the exhibition will have been previously marked for disposal, making the Tomato Battle an efficient and entertaining use of nonedible waste
The issue of food stamps is govermental/political like it or not. " Middle class and living on food stamps" is not a political article about food? Please................