Wolff Responds: Today's Food Stamps Scandal
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- In this Wolff Responds, Prof. Wolff evaluates and provides commentary on the latest Food Stamp Program increase by the Biden Administration.
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The food price has gone up significantly and $5 won’t get you more food than $4 can last year
My favorite bag of chicken tendies jumped from 5 to 7$ a bag. Other foods gone up, ground beef especially
I wonder why Prof. Wolff hasn't mentioned that this increase merely compensates for inflation.
@@mjnyc8655 or devaluing of the money, as they print more and more and skim massively from the pool, costs stay the same but the price tag seems to go up, as wages are at an almost 40 year stagnation...
Excellent point
@@mjnyc8655 My own experience ,admittedly subjective, is that it doesn't cover inflation.
I always chuckle when I open a Prof Wolff and there is never a TH-cam ad like all the other videos. No capitalists want to give him a dime.
I love Professor Wolff.
And he wont take a dime from them if they actually wanted to give it. Love this man
@@Ashdad99 A rare living legend!
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As someone on food stamps, I'm happy for any increase🤷♂️
You need justice. I once was a long time ago in my life. But, just because you have to be doesn’t mean you’re be treated less than a 2nd class citizen. And, people have kids going hungry! That’s unacceptable!
They’ve gotten away with it for years. And we have let them, shame, shame.
My understanding of term "food-insecure" is that it is meant to correct a problem with the term "hungry". There are many people who would not be considered hungry but who face similar struggles regarding food. That is, people who do manage to get enough food but cannot be confident that they will continue to do so indefinitely. They spend a lot of time and effort working to secure food and/or planning for contingencies. And despite ending up with enough food in the end, they face similar struggles as those who don't, and they need the same kind interventions. So we use the term "food-insecure" to include the full class of people who struggle to secure enough food, regardless of whether they are successful in that struggle.
Afghanistan war cost 330 million a day for 20 years.
So?
Thank you.
Yay I’ll have enough food to last the whole month now ! Thank you kind Sir!
Thank you✊🌹🗽🇺🇲
Life is really hard for the disabled. The government doesn't provide enough for us to live on. I make around 800 per month and I'm a single father. Facing an eviction even though I pay our rent, life just got much harder. The government won't save the poor.
Amazing how different life is, if only health care is free.
In Italy health care is included in taxes, which means the less you earn and therefore the less taxes you pay, the cheaper health care gets while everyone is fully covered.
That plus owning a debt free house means my wife and me easily make a living out of far less than $600 per month per person.
We do make more than that, so our situation doesn't really compare, but even if we didn't, $600 per month per person in Italy is more than enough to have a good life including a good car and a good vacation per year, while in the US that's considered so poor that you cannot even put food on the table.
Look at companies' executive pays in their SEC filing, and you will see how many times they multiply for their annual incentive award. So my question is, why do those high incentives pay only apply to top-level executives and management? Does that mean their low-level workers didn't do anything to achieve those performance targets? I guess workers are only good for a few dollars worth of starburst coffee cards or, even worse, telling their employees how valuable they are and paying no cash incentives at all. What a sad structure! It is better to stay home and limit our spending than work and enrich those executives' lives. While they are multiplying their gains, workers are multiplying their losses by working in this unfair system.
I am ashamed and embarrassed to be an America.
In Missouri I receive $951 a month SS and $51 in snap.
What's worse is the American Press Corp would never think to question a White House Spokesperson on the insignificance of a dollar a day increase in Food Stamps.
It is difficult to tell if they are indifferent to the poor in society or too insecure to challenge the authority that controls them.
I am embarrassed by our government..we're a 3rd world country SHEESH 🤦🏾♀️🏴☠️
The USA has been for decades. You just weren’t paying attention.
As Madison explained at the Constitutional convention, the proper function of government is to “protect the minority of the opulent against the majority,” In that regard, the government is functioning exceedingly well.
O.K. - a family with three children (single parent) would get 120 dollars more per month, that is 1,440 USD more per year (in total the food stamps amount to 1800 per person - I calculated 5 USD per day times 360. I mean - that extra is a car repair, or the emergency fund, or the next tires (and then some). Or 3 years worth of a new vehicle, if they drive a used car.
Or a decent washing machine and some extra. Paying down credit card debt (which in itself saves 20 % so 28 bucks extra in avoided interest).
It helps - when you are low income every little bit helps. But of course it is a band aid. Now 5 dollars per day (instead of 4) must be around 7,200 USD per year for 4 person (3 kids + one adult).
That support amounts to what other rich nations have as child benefits - only that everyone even wealthy people get that. it is not charity.
Plus that there are programs to support low income retired persons, etc.
👆🏼...I saw this coming, TY 🙏🏼
5$ cannot even buy a box of egg 😑
资本家身兼两种合法职业，既是法人代表，又是企业经营管理人员。众所周知，企业管理人员尽管是高级的脑力劳动者，但是，他们的劳动报酬依然必须遵循人力市场的规律，接受供求关系的调整。然而，法人代表却是一种特殊的劳动类型，法人代表可以不劳动。但是，不劳动的法人代表却是最稀缺的人力资源。
按照博弈论，人类之间是互相竞争的关系。于是，人类互相剥削。
资本家作为一个劳动者，资本家却不承认出卖自己的劳动力。资本家怎么可能不收取劳动报酬？于是，资本家自己决定自己的劳动力价格。资本家即市场。资本家自己就是市场。资本家和市场融为一体。剩余价值其实就是资本家自己的劳动力价格，就是资本家出卖自己资本的市场价格。
资本属于谁所有?
在我看来，资本本身也是一种可以交易买卖的普通商品。
就是说，资本原本的确是资本家私有的财产。但是，当资本家自愿把自己私有的资本积极主动的和消费者进行市场交易的时候，资本自然而然是卖给了消费者们。资本家获得了超额的暴利，资本却归属消费者们共有。
就是说，在我看来，剩余价值才是真正属于资本家私有的财产。剩余价值就是资本家出卖资本转让给消费者获得的利润。
问题在于，在这场交易当中，资本家几乎永远处于绝对垄断的市场地位，以至于资本家可以漫天要价，导致变成不平等的市场交易。
消费者们偶尔也可以剥削资本家。最近总是看到美团优选和淘宝的地推。下载app就可以领取鸡蛋、洗涤液、醋。
此外，消费者们也无视资本家的企业管理的脑力劳动成果。由于资本家已经剥削劳动者和消费者，以至于资本家自己无视自己的脑力劳动成果。而消费者们更是不可能积极主动的支付资本家唯一合法的劳动报酬。正所谓：资本家是做贼心虚，不敢向消费者们索取，消费者们则是贪小便宜，故意逃避耍赖。大家都是心术不正。谁也不要装无辜、装好人。否则，资本家自己决定自己的劳动力价格根本就不可能成功实现！一旦消费者们愿意积极主动的支付资本家的劳动报酬，消费者们就自然而然处于优势地位，就拥有决定资本家的劳动力价格的权利。
资本家作为一种合法职业，资本家作为劳动者，资本家的劳动力价格也和其他的劳动力价格一样接受市场的调整。资本家的劳动力价格也必然遵循市场供需。
但是，资本家的数量天然就少，资本家的劳动力价格自然就很高。一旦资本家的供给充分，一旦全人类都成为资本家，资本家的劳动力价格就自然而然调整到合理的区间。
请大家开一个脑洞，雇佣资本家的人是不是资本家？
一旦消费者们积极主动的的雇佣资本家，占有资本家的劳动力，决定资本家的劳动力价格，那么作为一个消费者，全人类是不是也是资本家呢？
欢迎普罗大众咨询一下税务局，查询资本家们的缴税记录。看看他们有没有领取工资？
最有名的就是刘强东的一元年薪！
虽然只是一块钱的年薪，但是，如果刘强东不是京东的员工，这一块钱可没有正当理由领取。
如果你坚持认为刘强东就应该免费工作，那么你没有意识到你自己才具有最贪婪邪恶的资本家的潜力吗？
工资是资本家作为企业管理的劳动收入。
企业的利润和股权是资本家作为法人代表的劳动收入。
工资越来越成为资本家的表面收入，企业的利润和股权才是资本家的实际收入。
@Sara Maverick 你确定自己看得懂中文？
你确定使用翻译软件了吗？
我看不懂你的回复，哪怕我使用翻译软件也看不懂。
你的回复很无厘头。
I've noticed that you never name names. I suppose that you think that you don't have to, but you do have to because people don't know those responsible for the oppression in America.
LULA ESTADISTA
The wealthy oligarchs will aways have a "Let them eat cake" attitude until their heads are on spikes.
sharpening my spike as we text here... I mean Wit, wouldn't want to scare the Capitalists now...
Ahhh the French Revolution and that cutting machine. The good ol days.
Terrific reply. It helps hungry people immensely. 🙄
Just remember the person who coined that little phrase "Let them eat cake", ended up with her pretty head in a basket separated from the neck to which it had been attach.
Also remember what a foul comment it was... in France the bakers would get up in the wee hours and make a simple dough of salt and wheat to line the bottom of the oven. It's purpose was to provide the perfect balance of moisture and even heat to make bread. This slab of dough was called the cake. It would spend the entire day in the bottom of the oven until it was a nearly black, petrified block of wheat based burnt concrete. This is what Marie Antoinette was suggesting the poor should eat. If they're hungry let them eat the cake. You could just as easily have said let them eat dirt. Same idea. Same degree of compassion.
@@annemarietobias And just remember that rather than take action, "progressives" are content to debate.
So here's a suggestion: how about confronting social workers who blame the victims. We are sent to "classes" to "learn to eat properly". How about a mass confrontation of the "help" agencies to get off our backs and get enough income for ALL poor people, not just WORKING ones, so we can actually eat well. How about confronting social workers to do their job and camp out on the steps of the capitol until food stamps actually reflect need. How about confronting churches, who run most "help" agencies, to get healthy food in their food banks instead of ramen and cakes and pies.
ACTION not words.
Talk about giving the poor breadcrumbs Congress just approved almost twice this amount above and beyond the requested military budget for the military industrial complex. But let's hype the actual bread crumbs we gave the poor
113 b a year for the war (only) in Afghanistan
15 b a year to help your own people
That is insane
Inflation ate up that $1.00 extra in the 7:16 duration of this video.
I live on Social Security Disability - I worked for 40 years before I became disabled. I take home $1461 a month after paying $148 a month for medicare. Once they give the cost of living increase annually they raise the medicare rate so I get an additional $15.00 a month annually. Basically they take back the cost of living increase with the raising of my monthly medicare rates. I did not plan on becoming disabled. My rent is over $900 a month. I had to move last year to another town as the rents were all $1200 a month for a one bedroom apartment. Lucky for me my son gave me the moving expenses. I live off 1/3 of the income I used to make when i was working. It's hard. I drive a 30 year old car as I cannot afford a car payment. I am 64 and have been disabled for over 11 years. At least I had put in more than most get from Social Security. I think the average is $1200 a month. Medicare does not cover eye exams or eye glasses or hearing aids which are really expensive. I think they are supposed to add these benefits with the new bill that just got approved. I am lucky that I have great credit and have to use it to get eyeglasses and pay for my eye exams. What's another debt right???
I hear you - I'm dealing with major dental and a couple of medications, each $100 per month.
Love you. Hang in there girl. Keep your chin up.
I‘m with you, friend. I’m disabled/ rely on sub poverty SSDI also. Had to starve and be homeless for years before SSA would even give me a hearing for my SSDI. Most of us on disability income don’t even get the equivalent of minimum wage living. $600 weekly unemployment for ableds. Many disabled are expected to survive on roughly that for an entire month. We weren’t even mentioned in pandemic relief, let alone granted any kind of aid, despite being more vulnerable.
Our lives matter. I wish you the best. Let’s keep pushing for humanitarian equality.
Most of those people pay way too much for rent. Feed those people.
we ALL pay too much in rent. rental properties are the new cash cow for the shareholder class.
Rent is 74% of my income. Then I have to pay the electricity bill
@@sandybarnes887
Just means your income
Is 1/3 of what is needed ! The rule of thumb I grew up with was that housing should not be more than 25% of take home pay !
@@thalesnemo2841 I'm disabled. Am at the maximum rental assistance welfare allows
@@sandybarnes887 WOW! Any other programs you can apply for?
This will not make ANY difference for the people who need it, but it's a HUGE WINDFALL to Walmart, Associated Foods, Kroger, etc. Every one of those dollars will go to the few people who control our food, making them MUCH richer without impacting the lives of poor people at all.
Yeah. It’s actually a subsidy for corporations. If it wasn’t, the poor wouldn’t get it.
🎯
@@keirfarnum6811 no shit. i kinda wondered m'self how it got approved. somewhere in there people other than the hungry gotta get something, right?
Scum bag corporations right there keeping time on a phuqqin STOPWATCH when those ebt cards get loaded and within an hour walmart has all of its food prices with new shelf stickers. friend of mine works (!) for sprawlmart and she's heard mgmt grateful for all the "ebt people" so they can make their store's month-end look better.
my belief who qualifies as a "parasite" has been revised over the past twenty years.
I've done the math and it's not too difficult to get 2650 calories a day for $5.0276 bucks. While you are subsisting on tuna, red beans, white rice, raisins, oats, peanuts and olive oil, it is possible - it does not include any fresh fruit or vegetables due to the costly nature of those foods. However, this is unrealistic and abusive to expect people live in that way. And in fairness, perhaps the people legislating this garbage should try to live on it for 90 days first so they understand...
A well fed man cannot understand a man who is hungry (woman, person, child).
It is amazing that they are more people under the proverty line in America then the total population in Canada. It is even more amazing that the US government rather spend money in military spending then to assist the poor people in the country.
So the question is what are the American people going to do about it.
Absolutely nothing
@@littleredhen3354 sad to say but i am afraid you're likely right. they'll likely keep voting for the same.
@@littleredhen3354
You are right.
Americans only care about themselves.
I don't know why those poor people have to eat. They should just celebrate living in a "democracy " where they can freely choose to eat or not to eat...
Well said…I wonder, what is the percentage of our “food insecure” citizens that are senior citizens? 😌
At least half I’d guess
I wonder what percentage of "progressives" are going to do anything about it besides making cutesy remarks.
@Joseph Norm Yes, "jabbering" expresses your "caring" perfectly.
@Joseph Norm did you make noise during trump did you say anything about the trump tax cuts
Most are children.
My husband has parkinson's and I stay home to care for him. We get $140 a MONTH for the two of us. SC gave us a raise starting September. We may get to $170 once the Biden raise kicks in. That's $2.83 a day per person. Eating high on the hog with that!
Back in the day, Joseph N. Welch, Special Counsel for the Army, asked Senator McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency?"
Nowadays, that is a reasonable question to put, not only to nearly every member of Congress, but to most of the ruling elites.
I wonder how many would give a simple yes or no to that question.
@@mjnyc8655 most if honest would have to say, What is That?
The only color that matters in the US is the color green. If you have a lot of green you are good to go, if not you’d better learn how to love poverty. A corollary is that if you don’t have money the system will make it easier for you to have even less, while those that have a lot will inevitably find it easier to get more and more. Without working any harder.
I am very proud of you Professor Wolf. You tell it like it is, and I thank you.
Snap increased our benefits by 4 times during the pandemic so we actually ate really well during but now I think it hoes back next month. Im terrified thinking about going back to the diet we had before. If you eat 3 meals a day ( as adults we dont) you run out of snap in the first week of the month and then do whatever you can the rest of the time. School lunches help but during the summer its a lot harder.
Funny how increasing the budget for the war department was bipartisan and passed without so much as a whimper from either side
Thank you for pointing out these facts, I so wish more people were paying attention.
It's not facts, it's outright lies from the start. Food insecurity is not hunger, plain and simple. It's based off of answers to a survey which don't even ask people if they're without food.
@@ExPwner I've had students who had NO food other than that served at school. Hunger is real. Especially in the south.
@@deannealbrecht3715 anecdote is not data. This man is claiming that there are 42 million hungry Americans, which is outright false.
@@ExPwner please show your data disproving this. He's a professor of economics, what is your background?
@@deannealbrecht3715 I don't have to bear the burden of proof when he is the one equivocating two different things. Food insecurity is NOT hunger. Read the USDA survey criteria for determining food insecurity. It is not hunger.
Who cares that he is a professor of economics? He is lying. I have taken economics courses and I still know better than him on this because I spent two minutes learning what food insecurity is. Do you not have the capacity to rationally think? Thus far you have conflated your personal anecdote with data from around the entire country (which isn't the same thing) and now you're appealing to authority instead of using facts.
I remember in the 60's, California had what was called "Commodities" as an analog to the SNAP program. They had their own markets where you shopped for food. You got a cart, filled it up, and went to the register where they looked at your card that you were issued. I remember the food they had was of the highest quality. They had powdered milk that you mixed hot that tasted as good as whole milk. Excellent cheese, bread and cereals. I'll bet it was Reagan that stopped all of that....
" The reason they call it the American dream; because you have to be asleep to believe it." ~ George Carlin
Thank you so much🙏
Oh boy, another can of cat food for Grandma!
I never thought I'd ever hear Professor Wolff say the word 'hype'.
"Hoopla", by contrast, is on-brand.
I'm old and _hype_ is a pretty old word lol.
Hello Professor Wolff, I appreciate your effort to educate people about the problems in the US every day that few people dare to talk about. That video on the food stamp scandal made me think we need another video related to the topic, but one that talks about how JP Morgan Chase used EBT's food stamp cards to get rich.
Sales Taxes, school fees, and other regressive fines.
Feed the algorithm
I live on nothing more than my social security and I only get $15 a month on my bridge card. Biden's new expansion will now give me $20 per month. Whooppee!
How do you only get that? I get the full amount on SSI.
Wow! Livin’ the high life!
@@deannealbrecht3715
Depends on the state.
@@keirfarnum6811 no, it doesn't depend on the state. That's what you get in all 50. $794 is it, unless someone gives yo a place to live then it drops to $539. Anything over $210 in any earned money automatically reduces your SSI equally. You MUST remain destitute and in many cases homeless if you're disabled. Disabled means not worthy of having a quality of life worth living.
One thing you should ask yourself, as pitiful as Biden’s action is - WWMMD? That’s What Would Moscow Mitch Do? The answer is easy, another series of cut taxes for the rich and exciting cuts to any support to the non-rich. So cuts, cuts and more cuts. I’m not justifying what the Biden administration has done, but think for a minute about the only alternative allowed within the US political system.
Always a pleasure to attend your lectures Professor.
If there were no poor folks, how would the rich know that they are rich?
My father and uncle and myself are getting a total of 220 dollars a month for three of us yay.
Once again neoliberalism has failed to address the issues our society faces today. A living wage and Medicare for All would have done something to actually solve the problem
They had to give the poor an extra dollar a day to give the rich a million an hour extra.
And the grapes of wrath grew heavy, heavy for the vintage
Whew! Tell the whole truth, Sir. The whole truth.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Imagine if professor Richard volff only one day talking to Main Street or Face the nation The next day is going to be for sure revolution
I thought "food insecure" was invented to be more inclusive rather than being a euphemism, it encompasses children who are not hungry right now but who could end up hungry soon if their families get unlucky
It is. Richard Wolff is a liar. Food insecurity is based on answers to a survey, and none of them ask if you didn't have food to eat. He is equivocating two entirely different things to lie to people.
Don't worry, it can function both ways.
@@ExPwner Didn't you read 1984? Those in power mangle language until it is unrecognizable. You accuse Wolff of dishonestly conflating food insecurity with starvation. I accuse the establishment of creating terms that are hard NOT to conflate. I am sure the term was invented by some well meaning academic. but the only reason it wormed it's way in to the public awareness is that it makes for great double think.
@@cartermclaughlin2908 oh to be fair I am not only mad at him since he didn't start that equivocation. The state does this constantly by redefining things like that and poverty. I blame Richard Wolff for not spending two minutes to research it before lying to people.
@@cartermclaughlin2908 As of this writing, Mr. Adams has made 117 comments on this channel. It appears he has a strong dislike for Prof. Wolff and likes to contradict everything he says.
You are all free. Free to starve.
Thank you for trying in this broken world
Jeeves bring the car around. Dear we have to get back to Richistan. Shall we take the yacht. No just charter the G6 again. The peasants here refuse to get the jab and the sickness is getting worse. Let’s ride it out on the island 🏝. I do love the wait staff and the food. Yes yes dear I can play the markets from there and the golf course is top notch. ...and there’s no labor disputes there either.
The scandal is the amount of amount of paperwork required to get it. Easier to do your own divorce, start a new business, or apply for a mortgage.
As a society we need to punch upwards not down. There's plenty of money. It's not the poor people who are greedy and have too much, it's someone else.
What can you buy with one extra dollar a day?
So if your single and working retail or fast food out of luck for snap
Well spoken, Prof Wolff!
Should be broadcast primetime on MSM!
$15/hour would fix much of this.
it's not worth fighting for less that $25. IF it passes, by the time it gets signed, and by the time it phases in over 10 years we'd still be behind. $15 is so 2012
Excellent lecture. Thank you for this.
Food Stamps are fraught with inequities, yes.
When I was homeless, I got $10 per month to survive on. My Food Stamp allotment was reduced because I had no housing expense. You heard right. I got less because I was homeless. By the way, I am disabled. I have food allergies. I can’t eat in soup kitchens because of how badly allergies affect my health / further disabled me. I was routinely shamed, heckled, spat on for not eating soup kitchen food I‘m allergic to.
If you’re wondering, I was homeless because I’m disabled. Social Security Administration forces disabled people to wait years with no income before hearing our SSDI/SSI cases in court. During that time, many of us are entirely ineligible for any type of assistance. Many Food Stamp & assistance programs penalize or deny anyone who isn’t working. Many require a ruling from Social Security to prove we’re disabled. That takes years. We too disabled to work & the court has not yet ruled us disabled. That means little or no Food Stamps, no medical assistance for so many of us.
I’m lucky. I just starved & suffered violence. I didn’t die. Many die. Disabled people-many of us who worked & paid taxes our whole lives- we are disproportionately homeless. We often die homeless because it is cheaper for the government. By the SSAs own data 10,000 disabled people die in a year, while waiting for a hearing.
Good looking out America. Eugenics much?
Thank you Dr.Wolff for your always compassionate & concise analysis.
Extra $1 for the economic and social issues (pandemic, growing poverty, political wars lost, trade wars).
Wow 1 dollar extra, would have been an exciting event back in 1821 :P
No kidding. The values in this land are in the shitter.
Speaking the truth once again
If only Anonymous would post this video across all the main networks and cable networks on perpetual loop for Mericans to hear and absorb....I often wonder how much better off the world would be if the 1% were just a little bit less greedy. #FeelingDoomed
Spent wisely, that dollar a day can help, but it's still very stingy. Remember something that costs a dollar, costs more with the tax (in those states where food is taxed)!
I have a question, is the 80/20 rule true? Is it a natural law?
That extra buck will not even cover a small fraction of what food costs have gone up in the last year.
Inflation make all food& essential expensive a gallon of gas is 5$,
So sad. I wish we could help those that are hungry, poor, and suffering for no other reason than the greed and contradictions of US capitalism.
Any wonder why suicides and over doses are on the rise/
Great video. You'd think people wouldn't mind FOOD. It's not a luxury car. It's literally essential to life.
Oh, but the (Wealthy) *do* mind. One such recently spoke of how “starvation makes the Prole obedient to his M’ahster,” comparing the lot of us to Dogs.
By severely criticizing the Biden Administration for the increase, I suppose Prof, Wolff believes a Republican Administration would do better? lol!! Seems the professor forgot to mention that the amount didn't raise even one buck during the Trump Administration.
True. Under the R. “plan”, I would expect a $ubstantial Decrease in all such aid.
More, I have *been* expecting great *RAIDS* to occur, so as to fill the many planned “poor-camps” - to implement the *social purity* portion under Authoritarianism.
you have the means to make the usa a much better place: vote them out, and replace with people whose only mission is to amend the constitution into a democracy.
why isn't this happening?
Delve into it very deeply and it will become obvious.
Peep this. I live in a small eastern Washington town.of 3000 3500 people. Have two gas stations two banks two groceries stores. One privately owned other corporate Safeway. Went into food city. Bought 8 bucks worth food. Had my son's food stamp card. We're both on SSI disability he get 780 130 food stamps. Me I used to get 760 no stamps. When Trump was leaving right as the pandemic started. SSS started taking 150 month for my medicare which should be included. Anyway went to use the food card. At the non corporate store clerk says we don't take food stamp cards. Asked why. Safeway does. He says corporate government pays Safeway Corporate government stiffed me at the end of the month when I turned in the paperwork for payment. Really I said you had this store for 40 years. And government a punk.
This is why MATH is fundamental.
Rent is over 50% of my income. Before a idiot says" get a different job", that's not how life works. The amount of money you make depends on what your employer decides they will pay you. If you want more, I bet you 10/10 you won't get that job.
Move.
@@ExPwner stfu.
You must either be very low income or live in a high tax/ high cost of living state. Both would indeed be improved by a move to another state assuming you could find employment in the new state. Also true that there is no state where you will make enough on minimum wage to technically afford a place, just some are marginally better. I would indeed agree with the move concept if it's possible to do so. Columbus Ohio most jobs, even fast food pay well over minimum wage and housing costs while not perfect are reasonable. Why not move where it's to your advantage?
Sorry. TH-cam gave me a technical problem. The quality of the food these programs provide is HORRIBLE. In many cases, disgusting. It's not even real food.
50 richest Americans combined wealth equals same combined wealth of 165 million Americans
The issue with these benefits is CORRUPTION and SCAMMERS! Have neighbors who are on welfare that just bought a pontoon boat, drive three cars and rent RVs to take week long vacations ! Yeah, their are people who need these benefits. However until the scammers are dealt with, the negative views and attitude of tax payers will continue! This is just an symptom of a broken society!
Doing an increase by a percentage, instead of a flat across the board raise of, say, $50 per person, only benefits only those that already receive a relatively large amount, and is a joke for anyone already only getting a pittance.
That percentage increase for me meant I went from getting $16 a month to $19 a month!! Whew!!That's the maximum amount any single individual can get apparently, and it's pathetic and cruel.
The extra SNAP benefits do to Covid ended last month (July) here in Florida and idk how I'm going to afford food anymore with these rising prices..
Thanks for covering this topic, professor.
Thank you sir for speaking the truth in a clear perspective. How can 1 person live on 2600 a month let alone 4.
Rent⬆⬆ , gas⬆, cars ⬆⬆, food⬆⬆, child care ⬆⬆, homes ⬆⬆⬆, health care ⬆⬆⬆? IF even accessible. Wages, soc sec stagnant for 40 yrs. Many unable to collect rightly, u insurance, rental assistance, loans ppp , system designed defectively on purpose. That's why there is what they call unspent relief funds they are tryingto claw back.
6 trillion spent on Iraq and Afghanistan, and there are other war campaigns around the world we're mixed up in. These war officials and Congress have no accountability whatsoever. Our congress and biden don't think our much needed infrastructure is worth even 4 trillion with all the corporate giveaways. WTF
They just keep taking more and more from us. They are not ashamed at all, it's all on purpose, they are psychotic sociopaths. We need a citizens union willing to stop work and stop paying student loans, the biggest corrupt scam ever.
Horrible! Is this USA? Greeting from 🇳🇴.
Shameful.
Thanks professor.
How many years have I heard this same story? Going on 73 years. Nothing has changed. Who's fault is this? Why it's we the people.
A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims...but accomplices" - George Orwell
food insecurity? great news! if our food has security problems, our military just freed up a lot of resources. Lets go occupy some farms!
ooh-ooh! we could bring them democracy! I read a book once that show SERIOUS political problems in farm animal communities.
SNAP! You have no justice. #EndCapitalism #JusticeInsecure
We don't use the word "Poor" anymore. We call people without enough money to live comfortably, "Financially challenged".
Hi. I solve problems. Basically all of them.
This is one of the most jaw-dropping 😳 videos I've seen on any subject. Hunger is a plague of its own all over the globe. Like, share, subscribe to help Prof. Wolff's message get out.
To be fair, a 25% budget increase per day ($4 becomes $5) is pretty darn great. I can easily eat for $5 per day. Fact is though, nobody should even need food stamps. The system is messed up.
As I am one of those poore people, and diabetic to boot, food is a problem. However, before I got SNAP I simply didn't eat at all by the middle of the month. Further, now that I must get food delivered because of frailty and Covid I cannot use the benefit at all unless I go to the grocery in person to shop or pick up an order. That's hard as I'm also 80 years old and somewhat frail. The program makes it hard to obtain food, eat the right food and pay for it easily. I hold up the grocery line because I pay once with my EBT Card and separately for such items as toilet paper and dish detergent. Someone always complains. Always embarrasses me!
Ding! Ding! 100%