The Media Are Wrong: It's Good that Able-Bodied Adults Are Leaving Food Stamps

The media are wrong: It's good that able-bodied adults are leaving food stamps

Perhaps you heard: Those monsters in the Trump administration are kicking the vulnerable off food stamps. That’s the narrative following Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’s recent announcement that 4.3 million people have left the food stamp rolls since the start of last year. As one ostensible expert told the Associated Press, the program has gotten “harder to access.” Another academic lamented to the media that “we have a persistent poverty…

Trump touts nearly 5 million Americans dropped from food stamps in 16 months

President Donald Trump told a rally crowd in Rockland County, New York, on Friday that his administration’s economic policies have moved nearly five million Americans off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in just sixteen months, a claim that, if borne out by Agriculture Department data, would represent one of the sharpest declines in food-stamp enrollment...