According to a recent PEW research study in 2012 the average Pennsylvania household received only $266 per year from SNAP
To make matters worse these folks who having been living large will receive even less then they did in 2012. The federal government was pouring 'stimulus' money into the program and that has now ended.
Pennsylvania will receive $183 million less from the federal government next year. It is projected 1.8 million are expected to apply in 2014. Almost a half million of them are disabled or elderly and nearly twice as many are children.
I've advocated for raising the minimum wage on this blog a number of times. This gives me one more reason. Do you realize that if a single person earns $9 and works 40 hours they would no longer qualify for SNAP? Even a family of four would no longer qualify if both mom and pop both worked full time and made $9 an hour.
Seems odd to me that many of the folks who hate this SNAP program also oppose a minimum wage increase. Seems kind of stupid no?
h/t to John L. Micek | Patriot News (Mechanicsburg, Pa) for his first-rate reporting on this issue.
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