Hooray for poor shaming on Fox ‘News!’ It’s so morally satisfying to accuse the poor of being a bunch of freeloaders, especially after people in your own Republican Party have decimated welfare programs, as we knew they would. These savage, greedy monsters assume that people are generally gaming the system, especially ‘those people,’ more specifically the poverty ridden residents of Mississippi. They want them to either work twenty hours a week or volunteer in sanctioned community service centers or lose their SNAP benefits.
The (newly) reinstated requirements are only for able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 49 who have no young children living with them. If they do not work 80 hours per month, or take part in 80 hours of a qualified job-training or educational program, they can only receive food stamp benefits for three months out of every three years.