Several of you must have been watching the Today Show yesterday morning or tuned into some great blogs because I received a handful of emails about their segment, How Walmart Staffs Up When Food Stamp Balances Reset.
While I am still on the fence about Walmart's business practices, their
idea to hire more staff for the first of the month is an interesting
one. The number of people who rely on food stamps has gone up 37% in the last two years to 46 million; these are the highest numbers the Federal Government has seen since the food stamp program began in 1939.
Apparently this was a teaser for the longer program which aired later that night on Rock Center with Brian Williams. After googling I was able to find the 10 minute clip, check it out. It helps to give an accurate picture of how hunger affects Americans every day.
“We’re not the habitual abusers of the system. We don’t, you know, we don’t use this as a crutch by any stretch of the imagination. This is to stabilize our family and to help give us a platform to launch ourselves into being able to do it ourselves,” Dougherty said.
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