Food stamps

Cost for the food stamp program now called SNAP was $15 billion in 2000 and rose over the next 6 years to $76 billion and has since declined to $58 billion. Much of the increase occurred during the recession of 2008. There are an estimated 5 million able bodied men between ages of 25 and 55 who are not working. Trump has proposed changes in the law which will address this situation and some 700,000 people will lose their benefits. And the problem at hand isn’t a skills gap. It’s that too many able-bodied adults are on the sidelines. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly three-quarters of the job openings that will occur over the next decade require a high school education or less. Nearly four out of five job openings require no training or less than a month’s training on-the-job, while a whopping 87 percent require no prior experience.