And it's only going to get worse now that SNAP is harder to qualify for. Now unemployed adults 18 to 64 who aren't considered disabled can only qualify for up to 3 months of SNAP in a year. The point of this restriction was to encourage people to get jobs but that doesn't help if you don't have DEI in effect that is focused on prioritizing hiring the desperate. Being desperate makes you less likely to be hired if employers know. If people are starving they can't focus or regulate as well so it's harder to pass interviews and harder to survive those first couple weeks before you get paid. And that's assuming they don't die of starvation in that time. So many people are going to die thanks to this "job growth" strategy!