• Sunflier@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Saved you a click:

    According to the USDA’s official guidelines, ABAWDs will be limited to just three months of benefits within a three-year window, unless they can prove at least 20 hours a week of work, job training, or volunteer service. The rule tightens eligibility to a razor’s edge, excluding many homeless individuals, young adults, and veterans — groups already struggling to reenter the workforce

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    Famously, people who are out of work don’t need help affording food.

    Oh, and elderly people are going to start eating cat food again, because being elderly no longer qualifies you for long term SNAP.

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      Famously, people who are out of work don’t need help affording food.

      yup, I’ve been on a job hunt for over a year now and SNAP was keeping me fed, so it looks like I’ll be surviving on saltines and noodles for the foreseeable future.

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    Looks like they’ve taken a page out of Australia’s conservative “Coalition” party. Who by the way were just thrown out of office in a humiliating landslide election (May 2025). The Australian Coalition even went further, using a poorly designed system to tell poor and marginalised people that they had to pay back benefits even if they never received them!

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    2 days ago

    This is the sort of thing that may change some minds in red states really quickly

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    What a scammy website! I’d love to read the article but amid all the virus warning popups and redirects it’s pretty much unusable.

    Anyone know if Connect for Lemmy supports ad blocking? Ideally I’d rather not have all links open externally in Firefox.

    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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      no real need to go to a site. this was done in the big buetiful bill and its pretty much what the title says. its just that its starting to take effect.

      • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
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        I do, in Firefox. But to browse Lemmy I prefer a dedicated app (specifically Connect). The app has its own built in browser which is more convenient when switching between an article and comments. Sadly the integrated browser appears to just use the Android system webview.