White T Shirt Video - Food Insecurity

First of all, food stamps and social security benefits are too low. Indeed, if you get the latter, you likely need the former. Even then, it's not enough. I need a secondary source of credit - an Amazon store card - to have access to Whole Foods when the money runs out (at almost 30% interest - hello trap). Safeway does not even have store credit - just discounts. Note to Albertsons - you need to provide this service.

Second, aside from increasing benefits, stores could - through either discount cards or store cards - provide an extra subsidy to those of us who use SNAP (and Toilet Paper should be payable with stamps). These would be funded by private contributions from other shoppers and as part of the general charitable work of the company.

Of course, there is a moral hazard - not so much that people are less likely to work (of course they are), but that the government will take advantage of the existence of private charity to cut benefits. Conservatives are worse freeloaders than poor people.

The other moral hazard is the perpetuation of racism. Food deserts go hand in hand with historic discrimination in housing (redlining) and because in some neighborhoods, teenage boys really do rob people - whether out of economic or social needs (gang membership). White kids do burglary, not robbery and all sell drugs if they use them - more often the White ones. Solving the food desert problem needs to go hand in hand with giving extra funds to poor shoppers. Note that this will also decrease theft for economic reasons (although entitled White kids with issues still shoplift).

Now that we know how to do more - it is now up to the food chains to actually do more.