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This is going off into the weeds, but the government can and does provide food assistance: food stamps. Still, though, people use those to purchase food at market prices, which makes sense.



As a Central European, I have always been bewildered by American food stamps.

But I guess it's because of different attitudes in these two parts of the world? American don't trust poor people with money?




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