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How will SNAP benefits running out affect the food market? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If states are unable to pick up the temporary costs until the federal government eventually reopens, will the lack of that amount of money that is usually spread out across 42 million recipients across the country drive food prices up, down, or leave them unchanged?

How will widespread theft at supermarkets affect prices?

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[–] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Maybe stop villanizing the disadvantaged folks in our society, and put that anger towards the people who have stolen so much from the majority that they put the disadvantaged in the position they are in.

I didn't see the main post doing that in the slightest. The poster is asking what the impact will be.

Also, industry needs zero reason to hold prices or raise them. We are completely divorced from standard economics at this point. Edit: spelling

[–] BlackJerseyGiant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Very good points.