Due to Federal Government Shutdown, SNAP Benefits Suspended Beginning November 1, 2025
Due to Federal Government Shutdown, SNAP Benefits Suspended Beginning November 1, 2025
It sounds like Colorado is going to try to cover the shortfall from state funding. I wonder what other states will be able to.
Colorado has the benefit of wiggle room stemming from the whole TABOR refund thing. Normally they refund several hundred dollars per year to all residents of the state in unspent tax money. This year those refunds are expected to only be around $20 per person, and then are expected to drop to nothing at all for the foreseeable future.
So while Colorado can handle this type of thing once, it also means that we are blowing our safety net in a fairly permanent way. With little means to make up for it either, as the TABOR laws make it quite difficult for the state to raise taxes when necessary.
Its a system that was fairly well designed in some ways, at least for a world where shit was stable. But in the new normal of ridiculousness and unexpected costs it is probably going to bite the state in the ass pretty hard. Its just going to be a delayed effect
The DNC needs to be shouting from rooftops about this in Virginia. Republicans at the federal level are about to withhold your lifeline. Voice your disapproval at the ballot box next week and put Democrats in at the state level so that you can get some help from the state when the federal fails you.
A lot of this state is not Nova and Richmond. There will be a lot of pain from this in many rural communities, and it's important to get the messaging out asap. And I'm sure Virginia isn't the only state that does odd year state elections, but this one should be easy to swing blue.
The DNC would never rattle the cage
Trump's administration could easily fix this with a phone call, but they won't.
Yup. My only source of income is stamps right now.
Can't wait to be back to stealing meals from the gas stations again.
And this is why you can’t rely on anyone to feed you. Also why you shouldn’t max out your SNAP balance. Always keep a 1-2 month buffer saved up when the government decides to wear diapers rather than acting like grown ups with people on their watch like this
When I was poor (my trust fund didn't pay out until my 21st birthday), I had my butler make small changes to my meals. Instead of eating all of my tendies, I saved one to eat later! I literally saved 33% on my food costs! That, plus I stayed in my friend's pool house, which is much cheaper than having to buy my own place. Plus, I was already there when Chaz throws another party!
Frankly, I would've starved to death if I didn't plan better. Poverty is a choice, and I even had money leftover to easily afford to go to Cancun for spring break! I'm so sick of people complaining how they can't afford things when I survived all on my own.
Reminds me of a story of a "poor family" written by an elementary school kid:
"There was a poor family. The father was poor. The mother was poor. The butler was poor, the maids were poor..."
You survived on the grace of others and developed some skills around being thrifty. Hardly a reason to start looking down on people, not to mention the optics of being a trust fund baby even if you were a temporarily embarrassed millionaire for a few years.
It sounds like you don't seem to understand how poverty works. Either you have no lived experience of it, or you do, but you've internalised the notion that it's possible to pull oneself out of poverty by the bootstraps — possibly because it's more comforting to think this than to reckon with how many of us are just a few strokes of bad luck away from poverty.
Often poverty is entrenched precisely because many people don't have a choice about whether to keep a 1-2 month buffer of resources. Social safety nets exist not just out of compassion, but because a society becomes better when people who are struggling don't have to worry about how they're going to feed themselves.
Place the blame where it is due: the maliciously incompetent legislators who see poor people going hungry as a feature, not a bug.
I live in one of the most poorest neighborhoods in the United States, in the projects and on SNAP and other government assistance, and I used to be homeless living on the street and shelters, so I don’t need any lecture about not understanding how “poverty works”. There are different levels of poverty. Just because we live in poverty, is no excuse to still be careless with the little money we have. Be careless and pay the consequences. Be in dire straits, and pay the consequences. They’re called survival tips and being street smart and I’ve gotten them regularly from homeless people, drug addicts, prostitutes and other people who live in poverty that I’ve met in my life. We can’t do nothing about what the cronies in the government do, so sitting around crying about what they’re doing is pointless. We have to watch our own backs and be smart with what we have.
P.S. It is possible to pull oneself up out of poverty by the bootstraps because I know people who have and I also know people who were up, fall down into poverty. One can even dig themselves so deep into bad choices, that it’s impossible to dig oneself out of it. Hell, there’s a celebrity who lives in my building who’s living in the projects just like me. It’s a two-way street affected by life choices, education, financial literacy, health quality, environment, and other factors too broad to cover here. Being in poverty doesn’t relegate one to always staying in poverty.
Red states are going to lose their minds....and food.
Most likely, yes. I wonder how they'll spin it into being the fault of Democrats.
It won't be hard given they're constantly claiming it's the Democrats fault for the shutdown.
This is not a partisan effect.
The partisan effect is everyone blue already gets the game. We need the moron reds who vote to screw themselves over to be just as angry, and this could help