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What Will Be People’s Response to This Proposal? If the Govt is paying for the cost of feeding people, should the govt. have input into the types and quality food those people are able to buy with the funds they get?
Food stamp recipients (in South Carolina) may be none too pleased with Gov. Nikki Haley’s proposal to restrict what they can buy with those vouchers, but, according to the results of a new poll, it seems most South Carolinians like the idea.
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The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control will hold a public comment forum about the food stamp proposal at 5:30 p.m. May 2 at Sterett Hall at the Navy Yard, 1530 7th St. and Hobson Ave., North Charleston.
A new Winthrop University poll, which included responses from more than 1,069 residents in early April, shows 59.5 percent of those interviewed said they strongly or somewhat favor forbidding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients from buying unhealthy foods with the food stamps.
New Poll Shows Support for Haley Food Stamp Proposal to Help Curb Obesity
The Post and Courier, Lauren Sausser, 04/18/2013
A new Winthrop University poll, which included responses from more than 1,069 residents in early April, shows 59.5 percent of those interviewed said they strongly or somewhat favor forbidding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients from buying unhealthy foods with the food stamps.
If approved, the program would be the first of its kind in the nation, but it faces an uphill battle. The federal government released an 11-page report six years ago explaining why restricting unhealthy foods from food stamp purchases to curb obesity is not feasible because, among several reasons, it is hard to determine and monitor what items are unhealthy.
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http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20130418/PC16/130419232/1177/...
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