The usda said 2,000 active duty members got food stamps in 2012. 104 million should provide food stamps. Publics public recording onto account for 3,000 recipients. If the usda and department of defense dont keep detailed records, how could they evaluate their system and best help families. Joining us now is the director of research of military families and a u. S. Army captain and graduate fellow at the university of texas, an air force veteran who has written on this topic, and is skeptical about the cause for alarm. And susans husband is in active military duty in the air force. Welcome to all of you. Debra is the middle class way of life that people associate the military having provided for decades on its way out . I dont know that it is on its way out, but we see a big differential between those who join the military as enlisted Service Members and those who join as officers. So your base salary for an e1, for somebody who is just joining is about 20,000, and you see an officer c
The usda said 2,000 active duty members got food stamps in 2012. 104 million should provide food publics publicrecording onto account for 3,000 recipients. If the usda and department of defense dont keep detailed records, how could they evaluate their system and best help families. Joining us now is the director of research of military families, and a u. S. Army captain and graduate fellow at the university of texas, an air force veteran who has written on this topic, and is skeptical about the cause for alarm. And susans husband is in active military duty in the air force. Welcome to all of you. Debra is the middle class way of life that people associate the military having provided for decades on its way out . I dont know that it is on its way out, but we see a big differential between those who join the military as enlisted Service Members and those who join as officers. So your base salary for an e1, for somebody who is just joining is about 20,000, and you see an officer coming in
Show. Regardless of politics, there seems to be something wrong when the men and women who serving our country are hovering near poverty. The unique challenges that military families are facing. Facebook, lots of sad stories. Nancy writes, i was a military wife and we struggled just to keep things going. With coupons we were okay. We never could get food stamp help. When my husband was in the military wasnt even 1500 a month. We hardly had enough to buy food let alone diapers and stuff. There is some snark. I still dont know why people who serve should be treated like gods. The same as anybody in the middle class who are trying to get by. I dont think, lisa,men is treating them like gods. The National Defense agency says, 150 million of food stamps were redeemed. Why does that matter . Well the usda says 2,000 active duty members got food stamp benefits in 2012. The average beneficiary gets about 115 a year. That should provide food stamps for 75,000 active former military and their fa
Comments throughout the show. Regardless of politics, there seems to be something wrong when the men and women who serving our country are hovering near poverty. The unique challenges that military families are facing. Facebook, lots of sad stories. Nancy writes, i was a military wife and we struggled just to keep things going. With coupons we were okay. We never could get food stamp help. When my husband was in the military wasnt even 1500 a month. We hardly had enough to buy food let alone diapers and stuff. There is some snark. I still dont know why people who serve should be treated like gods. The same as anybody in the middle class who are trying to get by. I dont think, lisa,men is treating them like gods. The National Defense agency says, 150 million of food stamps were redeemed. Why does that matter . Well the usda says 2,000 active duty members got food stamp benefits in 2012. The average beneficiary gets about 115 a year. That should provide food stamps for 75,000 active form
Comments throughout the show. Regardless of politics, there seems to be something wrong when the men and women who serving our country are hovering near poverty. The unique challenges that military families are facing. Facebook, lots of sad stories. Nancy writes, i was a military wife and we struggled just to keep things going. With coupons we were okay. We never could get food stamp help. When my husband was in the military wasnt even 1500 a month. We hardly had enough to buy food let alone diapers and stuff. There is some snark. I still dont know why people who serve should be treated like gods. The same as anybody in the middle class who are trying to get by. I dont think, lisa,men is treating them like gods. The National Defense agency says, 150 million of food stamps were redeemed. Why does that matter . Well the usda says 2,000 active duty members got food stamp benefits in 2012. The average beneficiary gets about 115 a year. That should provide food stamps for 75,000 active form