• quartz [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    There are various means-tested beauracratic nightmares that are too complicated to enter, and so meager in both the amount and what they allow you to do with the money. It's on a card, so they only let you get the foods they certified to be the shittiest. The calculus of amount of aid versus how much effort to get it probably ends up way below minimum wage.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's so good and neat that you can go to the grocery store with EBT and buy packaged raw chicken quarters, or like pre-cooked and cooled fried chicken, but not a hot rotisserie chicken.