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by dsfyu404ed 2262 days ago
SNAP is not intended to cover the cost of a recipient's entire food needs. The S stands for "supplemental".

You can argue that is should cover a recipient's entire food needs but it seems a little misguided to criticize the program for failing to meet an objective it doesn't have. Furthermore, federal programs have to be careful not to do things outside their mandate less they run into territory where they don't have political support and lose funding. SNAP probably couldn't get away with providing the full cost of food even if they were able to.
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guerrilla 2262 days ago
Clearly, the criticism is not of meeting an objective it doesn't have but of not having the correct objective.
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maxerickson 2262 days ago
They didn't criticize the program, they responded to a post that stated a fact about SNAP and made an apparently associated representation It seems like largely the US has been and will continue to keep people fed.

Saying SNAP isn't enough is pretty clearly a response to the representation.

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