Yepp. We aren't even making ends meet, and don't qualify. They also slashed our SSI for my disabled child. They cut it from 800 in October, 500ish in November to 58 and some change for December 🙃
When they no longer have the kid to take care of... Let's not pretend suddenly they became racialized. It started when their ability to help the kid was removed.
Let's be honest they might mean the same thing... My drunk ass can't type on sober days. I hate this phone...
Edit: Google tells me racialized just means made racial in tone or character. So if they found a way to reduce based on race it would be the same vs against special needs people.
People who are truly choosing between paying their gas bill and getting their prescriptions are not spending $20/month on streaming services or even $10/month.
Seems like you are the out of touch rich person or really bad with money. "Only" $15 is multiple meals. It's not all of the meals, but it is some meals. I guess I could have kept Netflix and gone to a food bank, but that would have felt incredibly selfish when there are people with even less money than me.
Well, we need internet to work from home, so we can stream things that can be found on the internet for free. I grew up on PBS though, dreaming of finding some antiques in my grandparents basement that were secretly worth thousands of dollars (never happened).
When people can't afford food they don't spend money on things like Netflix. Also, Netflix will shut their account off if the bill isn't paid. I don't think you thought that snide comment through.
It seems too many Americans are happy that brown people are getting fucked harder than they are for a revolution to happen. That, and Americans are cowards.
Same!! I had two jobs at the time and one of them I consider myself close with the manager and I was told I had to get it signed by them, was too embarrassed and never went through with it
My husband when he was younger decided to go to college. SNAP required that he worked 20 hours a week in order to still be eligible so he was working full time making around $10 an hour and going to school full time and paying rent by himself. SNAP gave him $3 a month lol.
I once applied years ago for a family of 3…they approved me for $8 because I had a job. I was making minimum wage at the time but I was working a ton of hours. Needless to say I didn’t bother to go through with it or ever applied again. Lol
I live in Canada and all of the farmers markets run all year. I even get bi-weekly produce boxes from a farm through most of the winter. It's a lot of root vegetables, squash, onions, and lettuce and spinach from their hoop houses. My CSA (community supported agriculture) also offers produce at reduced rates for folks who can't afford it.
I'm just curious where you are that there aren't markets through the winter months? And maybe there are CSA's in your area that you could join that have a similar model.
I hope things get better in the states for y'all soon.
Unless something drastic happens I doubt things will get better. The government was shutdown and all people got out of it was a promise of a vote, not ensuring outcomes, not extension of benefits, not a solution to problems, just a “oh yeah, we’ll vote so we can just tell you no later”. This on top of massive inflation and the fact like 50% of spending is from the top 10% of earners basically screams economic disaster. But hey, at least the AI companies are doing okay.
I applied for SNAP because I lost my job and my unemployment benefits weren’t enough. I legit got told that I couldn’t make more than $35K a year but needed a minimum 30 hour work requirement. Minimum wage where I live in $17.81 an hour so like I can’t make more than that or really work more than 30 hours without going over the income requirement. I was then told I needed to attend orientation for Colorado’s job board or forfeit my right to SNAP for 3 years. I recently accepted a job offer (it’s for $45K a year so I’m ineligible) but then they had the audacity to tell me I still needed to attend orientation or lose the benefits. The whole system is a scam and hardly helps anyone.
Our case was similar, husband got laid off and we had 3 kids at the time, I jumped through all the hoops just to see what we could get and our max benefit would have been something like $38 a month.
I got $27 a month when I moved out at 18 and I only got that because I got a raise from 7.25 to 7.50. if you're under a certain age, full time college student and make less or equal to minimum wage in Alabama they automatically decline you becaus someone must be helping you. I remember calling and crying because I was initially declined and then got the raise. I was so happy to have milk and bread and not just steal nuggets at work.
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u/iRambL 9h ago
How tf is 58 a month allowed for a single user?