Wolff Responds: Today's Food Stamps Scandal

CA 4 Wolff Responds: Today's Food Stamps Scandal 10,327 views Aug 20, 2021 1.2K 10 Share Save RichardDWolff 141K subscribers In this Wolff Responds, Prof. Wolff evaluates and provides commentary on the latest Food Stamp Program increase by the Biden Administration. Wolff Responds is a @Democracy At Work production. We provide these videos free of ads. Please consider supporting our work. Visit our website democracyatwork.info/donate or join our growing Patreon community and support Global Capitalism Live Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff at https://www.patreon.com/gcleu. ____________________________________________________________________________ Learn more about d@w's NEW BOOK by award-winning print and broadcast journalist Robert "Bob" Hennelly: "Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People?" available at www.democracyatwork.info/books “Hennelly brilliantly analyzes our capitalist crises and how individuals cope with them, tragically but often heroically. He helps us draw inspiration and realistic hope from how courageous Americans are facing and fixing a stuck nation.” - Richard D. Wolff ____________________________________________________________________________ Follow Wolff ONLINE: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gcleu Web: http://www.rdwolff.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/profwolff Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EconomicUpdate http://www.facebook.com/RichardDWolff http://www.facebook.com/DemocracyatWrk Subscribe to the EU podcast: http://economicupdate.libsyn.com Shop for EU merchandise: https://democracy-at-work-shop.myshop... 288 Comments Auggie Giuseppe Add a public comment... Campsie Grothendieck Campsie Grothendieck 6 days ago I always chuckle when I open a Prof Wolff and there is never a YouTube ad like all the other videos. No capitalists want to give him a dime. I love Professor Wolff. 84 Mr Bush Lied Mr Bush Lied 6 days ago The wealthy oligarchs will aways have a "Let them eat cake" attitude until their heads are on spikes. 59 Yong Kong Yong Kong 6 days ago (edited) The food price has gone up significantly and $5 won’t get you more food than $4 can last year 45 GetThePitchforks !!! GetThePitchforks !!! 6 days ago Most of those people pay way too much for rent. Feed those people. 46 Dan A Dan A 6 days ago Talk about giving the poor breadcrumbs Congress just approved almost twice this amount above and beyond the requested military budget for the military industrial complex. But let's hype the actual bread crumbs we gave the poor 38 Allen Carlson Allen Carlson 6 days ago Thank you for pointing out these facts, I so wish more people were paying attention. 38 W W 6 days ago (edited) The US would rather create this illusion that it's helps people not go hungry. Then admit this country really only wants to caters to The Wealthy. 39 Robyn Brennan Robyn Brennan 6 days ago Well said…I wonder, what is the percentage of our “food insecure” citizens that are senior citizens? 😌 44 Leo Inis Leo Inis 6 days ago (edited) I never thought I'd ever hear Professor Wolff say the word 'hype'. 22 Ellen Doyle Ellen Doyle 6 days ago I live on Social Security Disability - I worked for 40 years before I became disabled. I take home $1461 a month after paying $148 a month for medicare. Once they give the cost of living increase annually they raise the medicare rate so I get an additional $15.00 a month annually. Basically they take back the cost of living increase with the raising of my monthly medicare rates. I did not plan on becoming disabled. My rent is over $900 a month. I had to move last year to another town as the rents were all $1200 a month for a one bedroom apartment. Lucky for me my son gave me the moving expenses. I live off 1/3 of the income I used to make when i was working. It's hard. I drive a 30 year old car as I cannot afford a car payment. I am 64 and have been disabled for over 11 years. At least I had put in more than most get from Social Security. I think the average is $1200 a month. Medicare does not cover eye exams or eye glasses or hearing aids which are really expensive. I think they are supposed to add these benefits with the new bill that just got approved. I am lucky that I have great credit and have to use it to get eyeglasses and pay for my eye exams. What's another debt right???