The Real Welfare Queens
The Gist
70% of SNAP recipients work full-time. The real welfare queens are the corporations whose payrolls you’re subsidizing.
Last month, as 42 million Americans faced losing their food assistance in a government shutdown, Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins had some advice for them.
His full post: “There are 22 million American households receiving SNAP benefits for groceries, at $4,200 per year on average. Try to get your head wrapped around how many pantries you can stock with $4,200 dollars in properly shopped groceries. Any American who has been receiving $4,200 dollars per year of free groceries and does NOT have at least 1 month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack.”
Let me help the Congressman with some math.
That $4,200 he’s throwing around? That’s not per person. That’s per household. USDA data shows the average SNAP household has more than one mouth t…
