RFK Jr. says he’s working to stop food stamps buying soda and candy

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This doesn't actually solve anything, there will still be food deserts where the only store in town is a dollar store.
It's as easy as taking candy from children... No but really, as someone on SNAP, candy is a small and rare joy in life.
Boo to high fructose!
- I hate high fructose too but doing this is just unnecessarily shitting on the poor.
Isn't that the case to some extent already? At least I know the WIC program has certain allowed items for it, so kind of presuming SNAP has similar policies.
- SNAP is way less restrictive than WIC. SNAP is pretty much no prepared food, etoh or cigarettes but whatever else is good.
  
  Ah, been quite a while since I interacted with any of them personally, like when my middle kid was born ago so it's a bit fuzzy. I recall WIC was pretty specific lists like you get 2 milks and one cereal and one thing of eggs...

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