• daannii@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    As someone from poor rural Midwest, I can tell you from first hand experience, that people have usually ran out of food stamps about 3 weeks into the month.
    Meaning, most people on snap are waiting for the first to get groceries because they don’t have anything.

    And now we are going on week 2 of the month.

    So for many. It’s now getting close to 3 weeks without food money.

    And with the rising food costs, I wouldn’t be surprised if people are running out of snap money closer to the midpoint of the month.

    So for them. It’s been 4 weeks

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      3 hours ago

      He’s banking on many of them resorting to crime so he can say, “see! I told you!” and justify martial law and calling the nations guard to come down hard on American citizens.