Welfare, not in the state of Texas

[Anomalism]

Millions of working Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from. We sent three photographers to explore hunger in three very different parts of the United States, each giving different faces to the same statistic: One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat.

On a gold-gray morning in Mitchell County, Iowa, Christina Dreier sends her son, Keagan, to school without breakfast. He is three years old, barrel-chested, and stubborn, and usually refuses to eat the free meal he qualifies for at preschool. Faced with a dwindling pantry, Dreier has decided to try some tough love: If she sends Keagan to school hungry, maybe he’ll eat the free breakfast, which will leave more food at home for lunch.

Dreier knows her gambit might backfire, and it does. Keagan ignores the school breakfast on offer and is so hungry by lunchtime that Dreier picks through the dregs of her freezer in hopes of filling him and his little sister up. She shakes the last seven chicken nuggets onto a battered baking sheet, adds the remnants of a bag of Tater Tots and a couple of hot dogs from the fridge, and slides it all into the oven. She’s gone through most of the food she got last week from a local food pantry; her own lunch will be the bits of potato left on the kids’ plates. “I eat lunch if there’s enough,” she says. “But the kids are the most important. They have to eat first.”

The New Face of Hunger

Why are people malnourished in the richest country on Earth?

www.nationalgeographic.com

Chances are good that if you picture what hunger looks like, you don’t summon an image of someone like Christina Dreier: white, married, clothed, and housed, even a bit overweight. The image of hunger in America today differs markedly from Depression-era images of the gaunt-faced unemployed scavenging for food on urban streets. “This is not your grandmother’s hunger,” says Janet Poppendieck, a sociologist at the City University of New York. “Today more working people and their families are hungry because wages have declined.”

We live in one of the greatest countries on Earth. Your anecdotal sob story aside, people are still not starving. You apparently think cutting it close with food funds is the same as starvation. People aren't starving in Texas. Some people in this country are indeed poor though. That's life. We can't turn the world into Candy Land.

 

[fncceo]

if you picture what hunger looks like, you don’t summon an image of someone like Christina Dreier: white, married, clothed, and housed, even a bit overweight.

Starving fat people?!

Is this a great country of what?!

 

[struth]

In the state of Texas, there are almost 4 million poor people, by one recent count, but apparently few are penniless enough to meet the Lone Star State’s qualifications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
To qualify for TANF in Texas, a single caretaker with two children must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month
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Texas, one of four states that denied at least 90 percent of its 2020 TANF applicants, had the lowest approval rate in the nation, approving only 7 percent.
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This is former President Bill Clinton’s conservative-appeasing welfare reform in action: Individual states, which were given the power to set their own rules for distributing welfare dollars, denying the poor life-sustaining help by drawing up the rules in a way that excludes most people who need help.

Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor

Clinton's welfare reform reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.

www.msnbc.com

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see what I mean, they could care less about the kids once they are born. It's only the fetuses in the womb they pretend like they care about.

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Policy Basics: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

What Is TANF? Congress created the TANF block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, as part of a federal effort to “end welfare as we...

www.cbpp.org

States also have the flexibility to set their own benefit levels. TANF benefit levels are low and do not enable families to meet their basic needs. In every state, the maximum TANF benefit leaves a family of three below 60 percent of the federal poverty line. In more than one-third of states, it leaves a family of three below just 20 percent of the poverty line. States have not reinvested the savings from the steep caseload declines under TANF in raising benefit levels. In most states, benefits have dropped by at least 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1996.
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See what I mean, the republicans starve the kids.
Texas is not the worst state.

Not quite sure how you can claim they don't care for kids, because they have requirements for Govt handouts.

 

[fncceo]

Millions of working Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from.

Actually, they do ...

 

[Anomalism]

Luckily in this state, there are enough food banks, and donation centers of all types, all kinds, in all areas that can give you what you need. The problem is, these people are LAZY. You literally have to work at getting out and going to these places, IN PERSON, on a daily or weekly basis in order to get anything. And these lazy fucks would rather just starve and whine about it, than get off their fat asses and go get something.......even if it's free.

If they get hungry enough they will get off their asses and get food. Lol

We have it damn good in this country.

 

[Hellbilly]

No there isn't.

Actually there is, but live your life in ignorance, if you wish.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

There it is, ladies and gents!
Once again every time minimum wage is discussed the "burger flipper" card gets played.
Did you know there are lots of minimum wage jobs that don't involve fast food?

You are correct in that, but "burger flipper" is the most common and most notable.
Others are gas station cashiers, store cashiers, stock boys, wait staff, cooks.......pretty much all retail jobs in all retail sects. But also, these are easy jobs that don't require a brain to do.

Lots of people do like to work in fast food and make a career out of it. Like everything else, you have to know how to "work" what you have or are given, in order to get the most out of it. If you don't, then you will always be starving and unable to pay bills. Something I had to learn to do early on.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

Prove it.

Half are under age 25 This is all prepandemic. look at the rest. Kids

People here who make a big deal out of min wage are people like you. Over 40 and 10 bucks an hour

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

If they get hungry enough they will get off their asses and get food.

You'd be surprised the truth about that......at least in this state.

 

[Hellbilly]

Half are under age 25

PROVE IT.

 

[Anomalism]

You'd be surprised the truth about that......at least in this state.

Lol

Are we supposed to shovel food into the mouths of dregs that won't even get off the couch? They will go get food when their asses get trim enough.

 

[1srelluc]

Texas.....Go be poor someplace else.

 

[Anomalism]

PROVE IT.

Dude.

The Walmart near me is starting people at like 12 dollars an hour. McDonald's is the same. Who the hell is even working minimum wage? What are these jobs?

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Actually, they do ...

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Yes, I lived off the "dollar menus" at Burger King and Wendys for DECADES, because I didn't have the money for "real food"............it's just too expensive. I could literally eat well off $10 for a week, while it cost at least $30.00 to buy "real food" for one week. And when you don't make much money, saving $20.00 a week is HUGE. And I've been in the position plenty of times, where literally having an extra $2.00 out of my paycheck was the difference between paying rent and not being able to pay rent.

There is a problem with eating through the drive thru's and dollar menu's...........bad health. It builds up over time and causes problems, including obesity. Not because of eating a lot, but because of eating chemicalized, over processed foods for so long. But when you don't have money to spend on real food.......you don't have a choice if you want to eat regularly.

But now, I don't know of any fast food chain that still has their dollar menus. Everything is back to regular menus and higher prices. So people like me don't even have this choice anymore.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

In the state of Texas, there are almost 4 million poor people, by one recent count, but apparently few are penniless enough to meet the Lone Star State’s qualifications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
To qualify for TANF in Texas, a single caretaker with two children must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month
snip
Texas, one of four states that denied at least 90 percent of its 2020 TANF applicants, had the lowest approval rate in the nation, approving only 7 percent.
snip
This is former President Bill Clinton’s conservative-appeasing welfare reform in action: Individual states, which were given the power to set their own rules for distributing welfare dollars, denying the poor life-sustaining help by drawing up the rules in a way that excludes most people who need help.

Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor

Clinton's welfare reform reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.

www.msnbc.com

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see what I mean, they could care less about the kids once they are born. It's only the fetuses in the womb they pretend like they care about.

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Policy Basics: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

What Is TANF? Congress created the TANF block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, as part of a federal effort to “end welfare as we...

www.cbpp.org

States also have the flexibility to set their own benefit levels. TANF benefit levels are low and do not enable families to meet their basic needs. In every state, the maximum TANF benefit leaves a family of three below 60 percent of the federal poverty line. In more than one-third of states, it leaves a family of three below just 20 percent of the poverty line. States have not reinvested the savings from the steep caseload declines under TANF in raising benefit levels. In most states, benefits have dropped by at least 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1996.
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See what I mean, the republicans starve the kids.
Texas is not the worst state.

How many children have starved to death in Texas in 2021?

 

[Penelope]

The republicans pretend they care about fetus in the womb like they care about children and older adults get their food.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Lol

Are we supposed to shovel food into the mouths of dregs that won't even get off the couch? They will go get food when their asses get trim enough.

I've got a story about that..............but I've got to punch in for work now.
If I remember, I'll tell you about it after work.

 

[MINDLESS]

Hey idiot. Most of them are illegals over the years...lololol

I love your special kind of stoopid there P

She sure is a special kind of stupid.

 

[Penelope]

How many children have starved to death in Texas in 2021?

Would that make you feel good, thinking children are starving in TEXAS??
I can't reach you anymore. You republicans are despicable.

 

[MINDLESS]

In the state of Texas, there are almost 4 million poor people, by one recent count, but apparently few are penniless enough to meet the Lone Star State’s qualifications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
To qualify for TANF in Texas, a single caretaker with two children must have less than $1,000 in assets and bring in less than $188 per month
snip
Texas, one of four states that denied at least 90 percent of its 2020 TANF applicants, had the lowest approval rate in the nation, approving only 7 percent.
snip
This is former President Bill Clinton’s conservative-appeasing welfare reform in action: Individual states, which were given the power to set their own rules for distributing welfare dollars, denying the poor life-sustaining help by drawing up the rules in a way that excludes most people who need help.

Opinion | How states got away with not spending $5b in aid to the poor

Clinton's welfare reform reduced the number of people on welfare with no corresponding reduction in the number of people who are poor.

www.msnbc.com

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see what I mean, they could care less about the kids once they are born. It's only the fetuses in the womb they pretend like they care about.

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Policy Basics: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

What Is TANF? Congress created the TANF block grant through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, as part of a federal effort to “end welfare as we...

www.cbpp.org

States also have the flexibility to set their own benefit levels. TANF benefit levels are low and do not enable families to meet their basic needs. In every state, the maximum TANF benefit leaves a family of three below 60 percent of the federal poverty line. In more than one-third of states, it leaves a family of three below just 20 percent of the poverty line. States have not reinvested the savings from the steep caseload declines under TANF in raising benefit levels. In most states, benefits have dropped by at least 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1996.
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See what I mean, the republicans starve the kids.
Texas is not the worst state.

We've all seen a man at the liquor store beggin' for your change
The hair on his face is dirty, dread-locked, and full of mange
He asks a man for what he could spare, with shame in his eyes
"Get a job you fucking slob, " is all he replies…