People actually use food stamps to buy more food

Noah Smith and Bloomberg News

02/10/2017

For years, opponents of food stamps -- or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as it’s now called -- have claimed that the program is just a cash giveaway. Some worry that people will sell their food stamps for cash, and use that cash to buy alcohol, drugs or other things that the government doesn’t want…

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