Food Stamp Cuts Leave Rural Areas, And Their Grocers, Reeling

[eridani]

And it will keep happening as long as they place more value on stopping gay people from getting married.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/20/246396245/food-stamp-cuts-leave-rural-areas-and-their-grocers-reeling

The recent cuts in federal benefits may be felt most in rural areas. That's because data gathered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which runs the SNAP program, in 2010 shows a widening gap in participation levels between rural and urban areas. Rural residents are using more aid while city residents are using less.

John Anderson, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, says it's too early to forecast how much of a pinch food retailers might feel in the coming days. But he says there is real concern out there.

"In many rural areas around the country, we do have, proportionately, maybe higher participation in the SNAP program," Anderson says. "And a lot of that gets spent locally, obviously, because that's where it can be spent, in those local grocery stores."

[xchrom]

1. du rec.

[dem in texas]

2. Stop Abortion, then starve the babies

Yes, that is how the repub's think. Keep a woman from getting abortion, but when the child is born, don't offer her any help (freebies to their way of thinking). Let the little baby starve.

I used to work for a social service agency in a rural area and believe me there is serious poverty there. Where I worked, the unemployment was over 30% and there were no jobs to be found except seasonal farm work.

Repub's are mean, evil spirited people who don't want to help others, yet they pray at Christian conferences and prance around waving their bibles thinking they are more Christian and better than us old ugly Dem's.

[Scalded Nun]

3. Rural Areas have backed these positions and policies with their votes, have they not?

They should then be pleased to see their wishes/demands coming to pass.

[Nay]

5. Yes, they have, and one can only hope that experience still teaches people

something. However, experience and facts have been ignored in the past in favor of ideology and religion, so I'm not sure what will get through to them. I feel like it's certainly out of my hands.

[QuestForSense]

6. You'd think, of all people, they would know that the chicken comes homes to roost.

Common sense sure isn't what it used to be.

[sakabatou]

4. As a song of the Dead Kennedy's goes...

[taught_me_patience]

7. I wonder how those senators from rural Wyoming voted?

...the ones that represent 250k people who have the same power as senators from California that represent 19 million people... Yeah... you reap what you sow, that's how it goes.

[countryjake]

8. Kick & Recommend!