Fueled by your misguided cousins, cable news affiliates, and
equally uninformed politicians, there’s many lingering
misconceptions about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP), the government service responsible for offering
food stamps to millions of Americans in need. Given all the
chatter about entitlement reform as of late in addition to
national political figures netting headlines for their field
trips into ‘the struggle,’ here are 10 things you may not (but
definitely should) know about food stamps. 1. SNAP is not a
welfare program. It is a program designed to help low-income
earners buy nutritious foods, therefore you do not need to be
unemployed to receive benefits. In a 2010 report on recipients
for the fiscal year 2010 it was noted, "41 percent of all SNAP
participants lived in a household with earnings." Moreover, "For
most of these households, earnings were the primary source of
income." 2. Despite the stereotype of the 'average' food stamp
recipient as a Black person, Whites make up