Food Stamps Shouldn’t Pay for Junk
“The program’s price tag is around $70 billion a year. That’s high, but the costs to human health are much higher. An October 2017 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that SNAP participants have worse diets than nonparticipants. U.S. Department of Agriculture data show that SNAP participants are more likely to be obese than people at the same income level who don’t participate in the program. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, poor people are 70% likelier to develop diabetes—a disease that puts them at risk for heart problems, blindness and early death.”