Oregon in top 10% of states giving most food stamps

[catherine]

That's an interesting way to look at it, although conversely, it might also be seen as a means to keep people from achieving independence from government by keeping them relatively comfortable under their rulers.

I don't see how there's a whole lot of comfort being under the thumb of anyone--in fact lack of autonomy is the principle cause of stress, so I don't see too many people making minimum wage feeling really comfortable about their situations.

Here are some food stamp myths published on the website of an organization my daughter worked for

https://nyccah.org/learn-about-hunger/food-stamp-myths

Also, as it says in the article, you are eligible for food stamps if you earn $1265/month. You can work a minimum wage job 40 hours a week full time and not even get to that point. That's the working poor. So until the minimum wage is raised, looks like we'll just have to keep subsidizing people whose employers don't want to give their employees a living wage, but who then want to call food stamp recipients lazy bums who soak the taxpayers.