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“I’m not eating that much,” Maranatha Mays told me, because “my kids have to eat before I do.”
That’s a choice that more and more Americans who depend on food stamps have to make as the costs of the basics go up – while their benefits stay the same. Mays, who depends on food stamps, hasn’t been able to shop for groceries for about two weeks.
Food stamps don’t stretch as far as they used to as the cost of groceries go up. By the end of the month, some shoppers at One Stop Foods on Chicago’s south side told us, they are getting hungry.
I asked shopper Michael Jordan, a home health aide, how long his food stamps lasted his family. “Out of the month … about three weeks,” Jordan said.
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