Food Stamps & Hunger
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D–MN) claims that a Republican plan to reduce Food Stamp spending will cause more people to “go to bed hungry.”
IN FACT, people who take Food Stamps are 79% more likely to suffer from hunger than people with equivalent incomes who don’t take Food Stamps. The reasons for this are unclear, but moral hazard created by government dependency may be a root cause.
