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Re: [Pen-l] 31 million on food stamps

You got it!

Joel

Jim Devine wrote:
me:
the great thing about food stamps (thinking in terms of narrow
interest-group politics) is that agribiz likes them.

joel blau wrote:
Yes, that's critical. And no wonder--it's a "welfare" program run out of the
Department of Agriculture. The auspices make a huge difference, because as
with other such programs, the point is to satisfy hunger without impinging
on profits. The fact that it is lodged in the DOA ensures that agricultural
interests will alway be well-protected.

This means that poor people could lobby for a new welfare program
where some important sector of industry would benefit from hiring them
and would thus lobby for the continuation of that program... oops,
that's what TANF and the EITC are about, no? providing a pool of
low-wage labor?


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