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Receiving SNAP Benefits? Use Them To Plant a Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I still remember one Thanksgiving during that period of unemployment when our church gave one of the food baskets for the needy to us. They were embarrassed to use them, but they didn’t have much choice. After all, they had two children and themselves to feed. a day, just as someone who is on the SNAP program would need to.

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Stay the Course Financially

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

percent compared with the July 2013 through June 2014 midyear average, the U.S. ’ While there is some macro economic sense in consumer spending causing an impact on the country’s growth, it doesn’t necessarily play well at the individual consumer finance level. Even today, many are still unemployed or underemployed.