23
Jan
FACULTY ON FOOD STAMPS 1
Categories: Education | Tags: College Faculty, Faculty Member, Food Stamps
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25 responses to "FACULTY ON FOOD STAMPS 1"
Part of the problem, I think, is that many (most?) states won’t let you carry over money from one month to the next, so you have people trying to spend up unused money at the end of the month (or their payment period).
Totally believe you, and of course it’s infuriating. I’m just pointing out the difference between anecdotal evidence and real statistical evidence, and also the n-group “noticing” factor that occurs in such real-world situations (the tendency to remember the $68 in lobster tails, but not the person who comes through with food stamps for less luxurious items).
But yeah…where it happens, anybody can see why that would get a person’s attention and piss him off.
Ok I kid you not, and you probably won’t believe me, but today I sold $68 in lobster tails to some lady that paid in food stamps. Now it isn’t THAT typical, but the few times people do this, it is enough to make your blood boil.
So, by “typical,” you must mean that some clear majority of food stamp recipients actually have cash to spend, that they spend it on luxury items and high-end foods, etc.?
This is typical, yes.
Are you saying that this is typical? Is there such a thing as a system that doesn’t have at least a few abusers?
You know there is a company that is hiring part time for data entry positions.
They let you do it from home. Pretty neat earnings on the side.
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Altha2008-
Anybody offering to sell you a WIC card is a crook. WIC stands for Women, Infants, and Children, and it is a limited food support program for pregnant women and children under five. It varies from state to state, but WIC recipients usually get checks and are limited to very specific foods (cheese,.milk, eggs, juice, peanut butter, dry beans, and cereal) in limited amounts.
For my part, I’m trying to figure out how to get dental care for a lost crown. May have to lose the tooth.
worked all my life sometime 2 jobs
now 47 got parkinson disease, they told me that I have to much for food stamps
now this one person who is on ssi he said that he knew someone that would sell me his for 50 cents on the dollar
that I could buy 100 dollars woth of food for 50 dollars and that I could even buy his wic card too
this is not true
I been out of work for 5 months because of medical reasons got parkinson diease
they told me that I did not qualify for food staps the only income I get is 800 a month form disability insurance
not the farmers that for sure, farmers get little unless they are the big corperate jobs
GOOD POST!!!
I saw my college teacher working part time as part time cashier at local burger place…….
Maybe it depends on where you use the food stamps. In a poor neighborhood the cashiers won’t think anything of it.
I actually could qualify for food stamps. I’ve learned to live on very little money. And most of the foods I buy (organic) I could use food stamps to buy! Three pounds of oats are $2.75. A three-pound bag of apples are $3.89. Organic bananas: $.75/pound.
You can eat well for cheap, if you want to.
Now I know why i got a c and a hostile attitude from a professor I would eat my credit card purchased diner meals infront of.
I thought I was just eating lunch during an internship and getting educated.
i always wanted a food stamp dollar or 10 dollars.
I saw a guy buy two $50 bags of shrimp with his food stamp card, then he pulled out a wad of bills to pay for some wine. I’m working two jobs and going to school full time on Easy Mac and water.
I am for food stamps. but against using this resource for junk food.. Why I don’t want to pay for your medical bills caused by junk food.
People in general are not aware of what food support programs (food stamps) are really all about. Food stamps and WIC are USDA programs designed to support the agricultural market, not poor people.
Why are people allowed to buy “junk food” with food stamps? Because junk food is made from agricultural products from which Agribusiness such as ADM and Monsanto, profit. In my state you can buy soda with food stamps. Soda is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.
I wonder if any of the critics of food stamp recipients have ever had to use them.
When you apply, you are humiliated by the social service worker, who assume that you are stupid, lazy, and undeserving.
When you use them, you are humiliated by cashiers and customers who assume that you are stupid, lazy, and undeserving. And if you are wearing one simple gold band on a finger, that is used as evidence that you have money and taking the system.
I went out to buy some french fries at a quick stop to go with my birth day dinner last night.
The woman in front of me made it more than clear that she was toned and had the munchies and proceeded to buy $219+ in junk food. The cashier and I got into a conversation about how amazing the food stamp system is.
After witnessing that, I am on my way to applying for food stamps.
I am an Iraq vet and I am getting a lot less than I expected to to go back to college after going to war in Iraq.
I never heard anything implying that he EXPECTS a tenure-track job. He probably “expects” not to be on food stamps after paying exorbitant amounts in order to obtain a postgraduate degree.
What people aren’t necessarily getting here is that he ONLY HAS AN M.A., which is NOT the terminal degree in English. Thus, why does he expect a tenure track job?
I cannot disagree with anything you just said.
Also, people need to stop feeling “entitled”. Just because you get a PhD in English literature does not mean you will get a tenure position at Yale.
However, the lack of prospects for some of these grad students is truly frightneing.
A higher degree should help one ESCAPE a future of bagging groceries for welfare mothers! That is the whole damned point: freedom from the lifestyle of the working poor (like I am currently living)…
‘is these field’ should be ‘in these fields’
I agree; he completed a degree program, but your point seems to be that every person who completes a degree program is entitled to a tenure track faculty position. These positions just don’t exist in many disciplines. Schools know it, but they often don’t tell their students. Students often know it, but they don’t think they will be the one left ‘bagging groceries’.
There is no reason a doctoral student is these field should not understand how difficult it is to get a tenure track job.