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 Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 9:16pm |
 SamoneLenior wrote:
yall know they make men sign up for the draft now in order to fill out a FAFSA form?
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I thought it's been that way for over 10 years?
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Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 9:16pm |
Gkisses wrote:
I think students who qualify for FA should get EBT cards automatically but Im sure Im alone on that one.
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You're not. When I first started college and applied for food stamps I had to jump through hoops just to even be able to get $50 a month. They denied me at first and I reapplied again and had to do an over the phone interview and all kinds of stuff. I had very little income at the time since I wasn't working and what income I did have was going towards books and what was left of my tuition after FA so needless to say I aint have money to buy food.
Which is why I disagree with trying to govern what people use their EBT cards to buy. When you're a college student the first thing you think about is trying to stretch $50 in food over the span of a month which just so happened to mean buying unhealthy foods that last long such as boxes of ramen noodles.
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Yeah it's been like that and then there's that drug offense thing which is discriminatory and backwards as a motherfk.
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its only males. theres nothing wrong with that. *shrug*
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Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 9:17pm |
jonesable wrote:
If you qualify for work study then you can get food stamps.
Also most schools I know include meal plans as a necessary part of tuition and living on campus so it's automatically converted |
Not here... u have a actual job be it on campus or else where. Meal plans are an optional add on to tuition.
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They should take away fin aid so people don't riot once they find out
how they blew 50-100,000 grand on their education & still can't find
a decent job all because of some fake ass dream they've been sold by our backwards ass system.
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Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 9:19pm |
Junior Jr wrote:
maysay1 wrote:
The student loan system as it is currently operated is just one more way to increase the number of wage slaves who can never get ahead while the 1% continues to rake in the profits hand over fist. They're just like subprime mortgages and payday loans and health insurance.
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no one held a gun to their heads and told them to go to a very expensive school and take up a non-STEM major. ppl need to stop placing the entire blame on institutions and look at themselves
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Very true. I'm all for personal responsibility. But, I also recognize that the system is set up in a certain way...and the people who set it up did it that way so that they can continue to make a profit. They're all in on it...the schools themselves (and not just for-profit schools like phoenix...it's private and public non-profit schools as well), the government, and the loan companies. It's all a business and when it comes to business, the consumer is not the one that's meant to come out ahead. Also, these same people are now spinning the "well you should've just gone into STEM (or IT) and then you'd be employed" fantasy. Yes it's true they have lower unemployment rates but the picture isn't nearly as rosy as they'd have you believe.
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Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 9:19pm |
nitabug wrote:
SamoneLenior wrote:
yall know they make men sign up for the draft now in order to fill out a FAFSA form?
I didn't
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I thought it's been that way for over 10 years?
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probably has, I just found out last weekend
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Posted: Jan 16 2013 at 9:19pm |
has the "dark skinned white ppl" line be used already?
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I think accessibility (cost of healthier foods) and education should be promoted more heavily as opposed to putting restrictions on the types of food available for purchase. At the non-profit where I volunteer, most of the clients receive food stamps and many have young children as well. We teach healthy eating classes on what healthy foods go a long way, how to prepare food to last longer (stewing down the meat and preparing leftovers to stretch) and how to stretch their funds (surely, a $2 gallon of Hawaiian Punch goes further than $3.98 quart of organic cranberry juice- why wouldn't someone strapped for cash select the most for the least?).
It is a lifestyle change that has to be broken out of, especially those who are in the cycle of generational poverty (those who grew up on food stamps and have only known how to purchase food on a limited budget), as opposed to those who are in a more 'situational poverty' situation (someone laid off a higher paying job now using food stamps). The most common reaction we get is the lack of available and affordable healthier foods. Publix is much more expensive than WalMart.
...I paid $7 for a bag of grapes this week. 7 friggin dollars. I totally understand why those on restricted incomes shop in the ways that they do, and I also understand why I see buggies full of cereal and capri suns on the 1st of the month.
...but who really wants to take a hardcore national approach aimed at healthier eating and overhaul the SNAP program? Who really wants to see diabetes and obesity and tooth decay and high blood pressure reduced?
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