Midnight at Walmart on the first of any month sees a lot of people spending their new month’s food stamps. Most food stamps get spent in the first 3 days of any month. One in eight Americans are on food stamps. And more are eligible, but are too proud to get them.
Now days it’s all done with a debit-type card that gets swiped through, so it’s not that obvious when people are using food stamps at the store. That and hunger are reasons people use food stamps. With unemployment continuing to be a problem, use of food stamps and food pantries is expected to go up for quite some time yet.
One way to donate to a food pantry is to get free items at the grocery store even when you don’t like them. Then donate them to a local food pantry (often at churches, etc.) for someone who does like them.
Click title for link at Reuters.
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