There are shops in Milwaukee where you can use food stamps etc to buy liquor also while those items you listed are not "junk food" they sure aren't something those living off goverment aid should be given. The point is to give you what you need to live not feed you organic food/craft foods while those who are working cannot afford it. There is a difference between wants and needs and people need to realize that
Honestly this makes perfect sense to any logical person. If you don't work and are having the gov give you money why you should be able to buy junk food/beer etc. with it? Why should you eat better then those who work for a living and can not afford to buy the organic alternatives? I can see why Dems complain as it hits there voting base but honestly this is a pure logical step in curbing those living on entitlements. Now let's just hope that job search requirement goes further and is enforced better than the unemployment requirements.
I am a lactose intolerant celiac on food share assistance. Because I have a pending disability claim with no income, food share is my only means of acquiring food.
I've read the text of AB110, but could not find where it talks about organics, bulks goods, milk and eggs. What are your sources? Where did this information come from? Do you have access to the list of authorized foods?
I'm not understanding here. WIC requirements demand that nutritionally dense foods be purchased, and FoodShare is intended to help the poor make sure that they can purchase nutritional foods, yes? I could see an exception made for those with specific, medically sound and backed nutritional requirements, but I don't see any reason that the state should have to pay for organic or other "fancy" foods when the staples will do just fine. Further, there is no additional work to verify these things, just some education of those on FoodShare.
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