“For many, if not most, of the poor folks vacationing in the Catskills with their families for the summer, food prices are meaningless because it’s paid for with a Benefits Card.”
Do you think that benefit cards are bottomless? They are not. A benefit card is not a free pass to buy out the supermarket, whatever you want. (I had a benefit card for a while and then it was canceled because I moved– of course, I can’t reapply because the Farm Bill was defeated and food stamps are a thing of the past anyway. But I digress). Benefit cards do not give you enough money to actually buy food to support your family. You have to be a neurotic price checker and sale checker and even then it’s hard to put food on the table. The amount l used to get as a monthly allotment is only slightly more than what I would reasonably spend in one WEEK. It’s such a joke.