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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Are...you being sarcastic?

Imagine being told by an immigrant living in another country that you're not allowed to think about beneficial changes to the society you live in. "Business failed? Start a meth lab." Wow.

Let's not talk about the ultra wealthy getting wealthier in all this. Instead, let's focus on small time landlords because maybe a few of them are jerks. Snappy focus. Meanwhile the guys with multiple hotels under their belts are brainstorming ways to screw contractors out of $700 or avoid repairing the roof on a strip mall until it falls on an employee's head.

The Biden administration has revised the nutrition standards of the food stamp program and prompted the largest permanent increase to benefits in the program’s history, a move that will give poor people more power to fill their grocery carts but add billions of dollars to the cost of a program that feeds one in eight Americans.

Under rules to be announced on Monday and put in place in October, average benefits will rise more than 25 percent from prepandemic levels. All 42 million people in the program will receive additional aid. The move does not require congressional approval, and unlike the large pandemic-era expansions, which are starting to expire, the changes are intended to last.

For at least a decade, critics of the benefits have said they were too low to provide an adequate diet. More than three-quarters of households exhaust their benefits in the first half of the monthly cycle, and researchers have linked subsequent food shortages to problems as diverse as increased hospital admissions, more school suspensions and lower SAT scores.

Under the new rules, average monthly benefits, $121 per person before the pandemic, will rise by $36. Although the increase may seem modest to middle-class families, proponents say it will reduce hunger, improve nutrition and lead to better health.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Now only if we could teach people better eating habits.

That's also partly a money thing. Highly processed foods in bulk can be cheaper than smaller amounts of healthier fresh foods.