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by VLM 4339 days ago
Right now, today, we have women trading WIC products for alcohol and drugs. This isn't going to really change anything WRT that.

(I'm in the submitting too fast punishment pen. Source for my claim is having worked retail supermarket as a starving student, and having friends / coworkers / neighbors doing just this. You are correct that it is hyperbole that everyone who can't stomach 3 cans per week of juicy-juice blueberry corn syrup flavor psuedo-juice per week is a crack addict, lots of poor people just trying to get by.)

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Any source for that claim? I've heard things like that spouted by pundits, but they never seem to have any credible evidence.