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Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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Two decades ago, Sara Carlson, then a mother of three, was newly single because of a traumatic event, and the US’s food stamp program, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), helped her feed her children with free food supplies.

“I wouldn’t have been able to afford to live,” said Carlson, 45, who lives in Rochester, Minnesota, and now works as an operations manager for a wealth-management firm and serves on the board of Channel One Regional Food Bank, which works to increase food access.

While the food stamps helped her, the government cut her off after a couple years because she started making too much money, which meant she again had to worry about having enough food.

Now, nearly 42 million people around the country could face the same fate if the federal government shutdown continues and funding for Snap is cut off on 1 November.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mostly agree with everything you said, but

The vast majority of people can afford food

that might still be true now, but not for long. Unless something drastically changes the US is heading for a complete market crash. Without government intervention in the food industry, people will either starve or steal. If people keep stealing en mass then the store closes and then it gets very serious very quickly.

[–] whiwake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

It will get serious, but no citizen GROUPS will attack the government. At best, it’s a few angry people sprinkled about that will amount. There will be no revolution. There will be no uprising. It will be business as usual for most people.

Everyone keeps saying it’s about to happen, and then when it doesn’t happen they say the next thing it’s gonna do it, and then the next thing, and then the next thing. It is never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever going to happen.