[fencepost]

Hasn't there been a huge push since the 90s to make accessing SNAP and other "welfare" services harder to access (long complex enrollment processes) and harder to keep access to?

Other than that sure you can eat fairly well on $4/day - if you have decent access to stores, storage to stockpile bulk purchases when on sale and appropriate pots/pans/knives, a stove, perhaps an oven, refrigeration, etc.

There are a lot of people who lack several of those prerequisites.

[topspin]

> Hasn't there been a huge push since the 90s to make accessing SNAP and other "welfare" services harder to access

There has been a huge push of a narrative to that effect. Actual USDA enrollment rate data doesn't reflect much success in these supposed policies however; current enrollment (over 40 million) is far above any point in the 90s (less than 30 million.)

[c0vfefe]

Does this figure take population growth into account?

[rhinoceraptor]

Not to mention having the cashflow to afford bulk food purchases in the first place to save money in the longer term.