Nickolai

What a complete crock of crap. For people of all ages, the official poverty rate in the US was 14.5%. That’s equivalent to 45.3 million people.
Without food stamps, the poverty rate would be 17.10% – another 8 million Americans would be living in poverty.
Without social security, the poverty rate for Americans 65 and older would be 52.67% instead of the current 14.6%.

About 15 million children in the United States – 21% of all children – live in families with incomes below the federal poverty threshold, a measurement that has been shown to underestimate the needs of families. Research shows that, on average, families need an income of about twice that level to cover basic expenses. Using this standard, 43% of children live in low-income families.

Most of these children have parents who work, but low wages and unstable employment leave their families struggling to make ends meet. Poverty can impede children’s ability to learn and contribute to social, emotional, and behavioral problems. Poverty also can contribute to poor health and mental health. Risks are greatest for children who experience poverty when they are young and/or experience deep and persistent poverty.

Research is clear that poverty is the single greatest threat to children’s well-being. But effective public policies – to make work pay for low-income parents and to provide high-quality early care and learning experiences for their children – can make a difference. Investments in the most vulnerable children are also critical.

Nickolai

Let them eat cake the King has spoken. The words of Marie Antionette King Henry the 16th's Queen. They were both be headed in 1793

Nickolai

Trump needed more money for the Pentagon and for his 40 % tax cut to corporations and his wall that Mexico was supposed to pay got Ah but let the poor kids starve take the money and build the wall

Loki Loc: Georgia

There is an option called quote reply. It automatically directs your post to the person you are addressing so there is no question. You need to get a little more on the ball before someone on OPP just eats you up. It'll do that to stupid people.....

Loki Loc: Georgia

Loki Loc: Georgia

The US has the highest corporate tax rate among developed economies. Saudi Arabia is not a developed economy, oil money possessed by a handful notwithstanding.

Loki Loc: Georgia

The problem we are discussing as I understand it is not Food Stamp recipients in general, but scammers. Illegals and able-bodied people who just won't get a damn job. We are not talking about working people who need help. We are talking about people who work minimum wage jobs and rather than take concrete steps to make themselves worth more money, simply demand more money.

Nickolai

Not every body has the were with all to go to college and better them selves Loki a percent of the human population are inept but you cant let even horses starve. Then there are folkes in places like Kentucky and West Virginia where there is no opportunity no jobs and no way out for most and are just to dumb to know what to do

Loki Loc: Georgia

Most people can at least manage a trade school. My youngest son did and he makes more than most of the college graduates in this area. His tuition debt was a couple of thousand. He makes more than that in two weeks. He makes more than his older brother who DID go to college.

teabag09

There's always a way out and a way to improve your situation. I've gone through life on a High School Education and done pretty well because I was encouraged to get off my ass and do just about everything to, most of the time, put a roof over my head. Early on that roof wasn't much and I boiled tons of beans without bacon, salt and pepper was all I could afford.

Most of the people we are discussing are lazy moochers and it doesn't matter what you say, You're wrong.

Why don't you go down to the welfare offices and hand out YOUR money to these poor souls? You'll FEEL better about yourself and probably find yourself on the street behind being stupid. Mike

teabag09

It doesn't matter what someone says, you have more excuses for those people than Carter had little liver pills. Your problem is you don't see the difference between those truly in need and the moochers who out number the truly needy and are draining the entire system. Mike

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

You can't find a job if you are not looking for a job. A job is not going to come looking for you.

buffalo Loc: Texas

Just like the scammers and frauders and wasters with BILLIONS in military sending. You guys bitch like hell about scammers, illegals (which are NOT eligible for public assistance) and lazies plenty. Nobody ever talks about the BILLIONS being wasted, frauded and scammed from military spending. But tell me this, Loki, what the hell is actually being done about either situation with taxpayer money?

Nickolai

Yes most people can but there are a lot of people incapable of doing college work If every body was a college student who is going to clean the toilets mop the floors. It never ceases to amaze me how conservatives rail when they hear of a single black single mom applies for a dollars worth of food assistance while totally ignoring $85 Billion in Corporate welfare. You never hear a word about that on faux snooze channel

Nickolai