The media is wrong: It’s good that able-bodied adults are leaving food stamps
The article argues that the recent decrease in food stamp recipients is a positive development for both individuals and the economy. It highlights that many of those leaving the program are able-bodied adults who can find employment. The Trump administration's work requirements are credited with encouraging this shift towards self-sufficiency.
- ▪4.3 million people have left the food stamp rolls since the start of last year.
- ▪Many of those leaving the program are able-bodied adults without young children who were previously not working.
- ▪Polling shows that over 70% of voters support requiring able-bodied adults to work before receiving food stamps.
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Perhaps you heard: Those monsters in the Trump administration are kicking the vulnerable off food stamps. That’s the narrative following Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’s recent announcement that 4.3 million people have left the food stamp rolls since the start of last year. As one ostensible expert told the Associated Press, the program has gotten “harder to access.” Another academic lamented to the media that “we have a persistent poverty problem in this country” — a problem apparently made worse if food stamps aren’t available to as many people as possible. Recommended Stories Spain’s Zapatero exposed as Maduro’s fixer. Trump must extradite him now We were there on 9/11. This Memorial Day, we can’t let America forget State attorneys general are playing politics with local news.
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