Bam and Bri definitely made points.
Food insecurity and assistance isn't a hot take issue and should never be treated as such, especially when speaking on matters that disproportionately affect Black and brown people toppling under multiple intersections of oppression.
That's all behind these millionaires now.
The numbers don't lie: 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are Black.
It's OK to buy junk food though.
(NYT) — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg may face legal and political hurdles in carrying out his ambitious plan to bar food-stamp recipients from using their benefits to buy sugar-sweetened drinks, food policy experts said Thursday. New York City on Wednesday asked the United States Department of Agriculture for permission to conduct a two-year experiment barring the city’s 1.7 […]
The child nutrition bill will be a relatively big blow to social justice, if it is to be offset by deeper cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP).
(Chicago Sun Times) — The stagnant economy and double-digit unemployment rates in parts of Illinois have led to a record number of families getting food stamps, the state reported Tuesday. During June, 786,162 households across Illinois took part in the federally-subsidized SNAP food-stamp program, which marks an 11.9 percent jump over levels from a year […]