Dimension 7

Imagine working full time, yet your wages don’t cover all of your expenses. After rent, utilities and groceries, you barely have money for food, let alone gas to get to work. None of this takes into account the kids expenses.

But, working full time, and not making much, you do qualify for SNAP benefits.

It’s my opinion that if you put in a fulls days work, you should get a full days pay, and that pay should be a living wage.

When a full time worker is also eligible for SNAP, they are being taught they are not worthy.

Here’s the kicker. Taxpayers are subsidizing the business they work at. The business owner is able to pocket more because we give the worker SNAP. But, as above the worker illustrates, they still don’t have enough. The business owner has enough, yet they are receiving more benefit from those SNAP benefits than the person they are issued to.

70% of employed SNAP recipients work 35 or more hours a week.

This is why, at the 1936 signing of his landmark New Deal legislation, FDR said, “No business that depends of paying less than a living wage deserves to continue in this country.”

We can not solve poverty, not because we can’t satisfy poor people. No, we can’t solve poverty because we can’t satisfy the rich.