Kicking People Off Food Stamps Does Not Help: A Big Fat Wow!

According to the Bangor Daily News, on January 1, 2015, nearly 7,000 residents of Maine became ineligible for Food Stamps. Childless Food Stamp recipents in the state of Maine must work, volunteer, or be placed in job training in order to continue to be eligible for their SNAP benefits. Generally speaking, there's absolutely nothing wrong with these requirements, but it's more complicated that how it seems, keep reading before you judge...

When recipeints do not comply with the rules, they are kicked off the program. The governor of Main, Paul LePage choose not to seek an extension in benefits for those 7,000 recipeints, so they will be kicked off the program, but here's the problem: 

Jobs are still scarce in Maine, and those "job training" programs are few and far between, and inadequate. Helping people to escape poverty takes adequate child care, stable housing, and real help with training and employment, Maine (just like almost everywhere else, really...) is falling short in these areas, and kicking people off assistance does not solve the problem - it never has and it never will... Most of us already know this; hopefully, someone with some real power will get it and start instituting changes that can really help the issue of poverty. 

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Kicking People off Food Stamps Doesn't Make Them Less Impoverished or Employed