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You don't want to encourage people who are not desperate to use food pantries, since that discourages people from working, at a time of labor shortage.
by Bostonian 4y ago
You don't want to encourage people who are not desperate to use food pantries, since that discourages people from working, at a time of labor shortage.
- PaulHoule 4y agoYou could be working and just decide you want to save the money. In that case people might complain that you are taking free food from someone else or depriving the supermarket from profits. It is amazing how many people don't get public services because of feelings of shame. All the people I know who've gotten on disability in the US come from upper-class families, the poor people I know who struggle with severe mental illness (e.g. so disorganized that they struggle to get up in the morning and smoke a cigarette) are often too proud to claim benefits and would be dissuaded by the adversarial process they have to go through to get them. I volunteered at a soup kitchen a while ago and I saw some counterexamples to "food in the food pantry is the same quality as food in the supermarket". (e.g. we got food from many sources, including the food pantry) Particularly I would see different brands of food from the usual that had unusual ingredients. For instance I saw peanut butter with peanuts grown in India and that was also cut with large amounts of seed oils that I don't usually see on the label of commercial peanut butter. I don't know anything about the quality of Indian peanuts but that is the only time I've seen them in peanut butter in the US.