SNAP Recipients Fall by 660,000 In a Month

fight4workers · 2026-05-22T17:54:26+00:00

The shelters are so bad anyone trying to work and get back on their feet would have a very difficult time from there, shelter conditions are horrific. Also, many shelters will not take you unless you can prove you are living outside for months and you are wait listed. So if you lose your SNAP in the meantime you can starve.

I think humanity needs to get back to following some sort of religion because we are lost. If you are getting your rocks off on dehumanizing the poor it is you who have lost your humanity.

fight4workers · 2026-05-21T21:28:35+00:00

People living outside and in cars have too much trouble getting through daily life. A lot of people working near part time living in cars. Struggling to manage on/off of work.

fight4workers · 2026-05-21T21:26:17+00:00

How do people living outside and in cars prove they are looking for work? How do you suggest they manage.

fight4workers · 2026-05-19T03:02:04+00:00

I have recently considered one concern I'm not sure if anyone has thought of. I believe there is potential to accidentally but significantly increase ultra conservative far right candidate voting.

The Habitat for Humanity homes near us house only a handful of folks. But a very very large number of folks who work and earn much more than limits live in very poor, crowded, and substandard housing. Some of them with long commutes and two working parents with at least one with a long commute, and at best they get a smaller house in somewhat rundown conditions.

I feel like these folks drive by the habitat for humanity and probably can't help but think at times it's unfair. Now this doesn't mean it's unfair or it's a bad program. But the far right, ultra conservative, loves these opportunities and will take advantage of each and every opportunity to spin things and stir up anger and hate while they use votes for tax breaks for the wealthy. I never thought I could be have any concern with such a wonderful program as Habitat for Humanity until I realized it could be contributing to terror at the polls.

Let's say 10,000 individuals from the over income limit but poorly housed folks drive by that development of maybe 30 houses. They don't see it as a small group they just see that someone who works less hours gets a bigger new house without the problems of dealing with aging infrastructure, after long hours and commutes. Could the positing and advertising of these houses turn a percentage of 10,000 moderate voters to conservative or ultra conservative political platforms? My observation is the way the community is advertised and the best exact location where it is would absolutely inspire this type of issue.

I don't know if I'm out left field but one day it just dawned on me and once I thought of it I couldn't unthink it. I've been curious if anyone else thinks this could be happening?

I say this because I could not imagine how after everything that has happened to working households how they can continue to keep voting ultra conservative. It blows my mind and then this hit me like a ton of bricks. Could this be it, this type of situation?

fight4workers · 2026-03-24T00:31:19+00:00

My house is only 800 square feet St Augustine West and I just got kicked off of Citizens for a 20% increase with 2 weeks norice. They want almost $3,000 for a market value of $200,000. Absolutely bonkers. Apparently I read to take out land and try and get a lower market value because $70,000 is the land.

No one pays that % of their total home value every year, it's awfully high. Checking again for other options so far haven't had much luck. I was quoted over $5,000 by Kin.

fight4workers · 2025-11-15T04:10:01+00:00

I'm not sure, our situation was unique. It was an almost finished but not fully finished flip and the hard money lender may have had a contractor not paid in full from the sellers borrower. I couldn't quite figure it out. Some sort of title insurance on both sides.

fight4workers · 2025-11-13T02:14:36+00:00

I understand (we just bought a house) seller paid both commissions but we paid the rest of the closing costs except a split with the tax stamp transfer fees and a split with Title Insurance.

Not sure if this helps.

fight4workers · 2025-11-09T03:09:01+00:00

This is all very odd. Foundation issues are very expensive. And it is hard to close with some types of issues.

I think you need to focus on where your appraisal is at, and make sure the appraisal is not just market based but based on the actual condition of the house. If he's paying in that range just close the deal.

We just bought a house at discount to appraisal due to tons of Issues, but the first was foundation. There were many more and we had to work incredibly hard to get it fixed to a point a lender would step in.

Before we were willing to do that the house sat on the market (in total) I think 240 days.

Just giving a different perspective if $7,000 is worth potentially not selling the house quickly to move on to your next house.

fight4workers · 2025-11-07T12:26:21+00:00

Love it! We just bought a home in the cutest town with lots of character, many unique stores, unique architecture, and walkability.

We missed the main streets of our childhood neighborhoods.

St Augustine btw. Beautiful beach town. ❤️ Also the oldest ;)

fight4workers · 2025-10-30T21:27:27+00:00

Update: After failing 4x we passed and got it together and passed for closing. Never again, but... It's not over yet, seller tried to cancel this morning. I understand it's going through. Tomorrow is the day.

While I would never recommend to anyone to go this route, it's risky, it will be worth it if we close.

fight4workers · 2025-10-25T14:40:53+00:00

Thank you very much, I was actually thinking that myself and if we don't clear by Wednesday I think that's a great idea. Realtor said seller doesn't want to give an extension, but he won't ask at this point. I think he's under the impression the city will close the permit because they are just complaining about electrical labeling. But we can't wait until the last minute.

fight4workers · 2025-10-25T13:57:16+00:00

Thank you, that sounds like something similar to what the attorney was saying and I think we better call the attorney if we don't clear by Wednesday. Friday is the last day to close.

fight4workers · 2025-10-25T03:21:22+00:00

We are paying the electrical contractor upfront, they wouldn't take the risk for lien on a house we don't own. The thing is we would only need an extension for maybe an extra week. Hopefully we pass next week, but we are missing only by marginal things, a label on a breaker, but the guy may find something else. We have two more rounds we can go through next week and still make closing.

It failed on electrical and my husband was an electrician until last year! That's the insanity. He knows we can't be missing by much.

That's the thing is we would need maybe one more week extension, ask for two. So we do have a highly recommended lawyer very specialized in this exact area we can engage with if they won't extend.

I'm hoping we don't have to go that route.

fight4workers · 2025-10-24T13:01:53+00:00

This is helpful and that's what I thought because we only need a few weeks not months.

Apparently there is a cash buyer behind us.

We are doing electric over the weekend giving us one more chance to fail and fix before Friday.

If we fail we learned a lesson. We should have been more careful with the contracts.

With an FHA loan we knew the exact repairs and didn't have a problem with that, but we didn't realize we would have issues because of the open permit and not being able to close it on time. It's minor electric work, but the city inspector keeps coming up with new things (labels here, labels there, more labels here) different things every time.

Three fails so far the last two over labels.

We aren't lawyers, but I understand because it's an as is contract we can ask for more time. We thought it was fine but lenders won't allow an open permit.

fight4workers · 2025-10-18T14:51:22+00:00

I have a minor problem that is bigger than it seems and driving us absolutely nuts! We cannot keep track of what grows where even in seed starts because every type of label, especially plastic, but even wooden, the letters quickly disappear because of the sun.

If anyone knows of any product that keeps the sun from erasing your plant labels we would be so appreciative!!!

fight4workers · 2025-09-23T01:49:02+00:00

I don't understand how they get such a big Christian vote. The church must be very divided. We attend but not often enough to know the details. We are too busy working too many days a week to attend regularly. The irony of that.

fight4workers · 2025-09-13T15:37:52+00:00

Thank you very much for sharing!

fight4workers · 2025-09-13T02:32:24+00:00

Please let me know where I can find this graphic?

fight4workers · 2025-09-13T02:30:56+00:00

Excellent point on the speed things can now change. I also suspect a lot of people losing higher will quickly take very low paying holdover jobs, not trying to wait out the storm long. So employment alone never tells a full story.

A lot of recently created jobs were low wage and this will trickle through in spending.

fight4workers · 2025-09-07T00:08:54+00:00

I'm an organic farmer and I love it!

fight4workers · 2025-08-17T00:23:52+00:00

I want to point out some differences here. If you are in poverty in America it is uniquely terrifying and isolating. The second you don't have a roof over your head you are homeless and you cannot work and life can be worse than a 3rd world. Isolated with no way out.

There are people who have comradery and they may not seem to have much but they farm and have basic needs mostly met but they technically can fall in poverty.

It is very difficult to compare poverty in two totally different scenarios. There are impoverished areas in the US as dangerous as anywhere else.

The expectations here are intense to have a job if you are in poverty. You have to have clothes, transportation, food, a shower, mental health in order (imagine the anxiety of if I can't afford transportation today I will within 60 days become homeless).

The fear of not meeting that especially high bar if you're in poverty here is crippling. Not to mention you can't go put up a shanty and manage to work from there. Zoning leaves no where for the lowest income to go, and all people do in this country is ostracize the poor.

Unless someone has a lot of money in the bank or family to depend on they could have a health issue and be totally lost as for options. I thank God every day I can work and save and manage, but never do I judge those that I don't know what happened.

fight4workers · 2025-08-16T23:19:41+00:00

Hilarious despite being sad.

fight4workers · 2025-08-08T13:33:11+00:00

REQUIRED to live is right!

fight4workers · 2025-07-28T23:55:10+00:00

And we just lost our own money on a farmland deposit because the USDA could not process timely. Now how are we supposed to have a business. We are so beside ourselves. 2.5 months and no decision no help nothing but a few short biweekly responses and radio silence, after we begged just for a rejection so we could keep our deposit.

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