Don’t know what I’m going through. You don’t know what millions of Americans are going through. I find it sick how many people just love the idea of cutting these vital programs off because it makes them feel good to see other, very vulnerable people suffer.

Started a new job and not known how you’d eat each day until you get your first paycheck (usually about a month after you start)? You mind has trouble focusing until you know your basic needs are met. I have.

So please, if you can’t show an ounce of empathy, STFU. You…

The work in and whether I deserve SNAP benefits to help get me back on my feet until I find a job. I know that many people are of the impression that there’s lots of help out there if you need it. That simply isn’t true. For the places that have help, it’s limited and runs out quickly…

Come with me when I go to a blood plasma place to try and get a few $’s for food by selling my plasma, stand in lines for over 3 hours just to be told I don’t qualify because my blood protein is too high. Then, and only then can you begin to speak to me about whether I’m putting..

Watch me get home and continue applying to jobs if I can find more. Then catch a game or watch a little TV, go to bed and do it all over again the next day…

Follow me on my 2-3 mile walk to the Alano AA club where I sit for about 4 hours a day applying to jobs and take in a meeting. Watch me walk from there to my intensive outpatient program where I engage everyday then either catch a ride from someone home or walk back 2-3 miles.

Here’s the story id like to see told…. Come follow me for a day. Watch me get up at 6am. Apply to jobs by 7. Have to leave my sober living by 9am because we’re not allowed to be in the house between 9am and 4pm….

Met, you go into survival mode. The things you need to do to get back on your feet go out the window until your immediate needs (food, shelter) are met. Have you ever tried interviewing for a job having not eaten that day or for days? Have you ever…

I’d also love to know how many of these “tough love” advocates are, themselves using social safety nets. Or have never had to wonder where their next meal will come from or if they’ll have a roof over their head tonight.

When your most basic needs aren’t being…

2. Another large group are people who do work. Walmart has thousands of workers that make so little that they have to use SNAP to make ends meet. As do other large corporations

3. Military families and veterans make up a disproportionate number of recipients….

So many of you have made a few things very clear:

1. You don’t want any kind of social safety net at all. “Good cut them off. They’ll finally have to work!!”. Yet the largest group of recipients are households with children, the elderly, or individuals with a disability…

Time on making sure we eat. I’ve applied to hundreds of jobs in the last month. Had lots of interviews. The market sucks. I’m doing the best I can to use the assistance as a hand up. But the vitriol people like me get, especially online is deeply offensive….

Here’s an honest question for you, if I spend most of my day, everyday, looking for and applying to jobs, what do you think I’ll have to do instead, if I don’t know how I’ll eat everyday? You can’t get big angry with people like me that will have to refocus their…

you once assumed was a cheap option for food has become pricey. And then there’s food banks. This seems to be the answer I see most. Have any of you with this answer ever been to one? They’re stretched incredibly thin as it is. Now let’s dump millions more on them, overnight…

Start posting until Monday when I start all over again. I get just under $300 a month in SNAP. But that goes fast with the price of groceries. “Why not just eat cheap meals like Hamburger Helper or something?” Because hamburger is expensive. Almost everything…

This starts on Monday and usually by Wednesday, I’ve applied to all the open positions I’m qualified for, and some I’m a marginal candidate for. By Thursday, there’s a handful of new positions that I’ll hit, but new jobs, ones I haven’t already applied for, don’t…

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I’ve got an interview for a help desk manager at a fast food franchisee on Tuesday. Pretty excited. I’ve got plenty of experience

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