re: $9.38 per day is current welfare food stamps right now.

Pound of ground beef, box of Dirty Rice mix. Fam of 4 fed dinner easily. You can feed people hot pockets easily, for days. Kids qualify for reduced price/free lunch (in Houston, it's provided even when school isn't in session.)

Or, you could get a job that pays more than $10 an hour to roll pizzas off of the conveyor and into boxes. But nevermind that.

But thank the stars you don't have to dump the $1300 Samsung Galaxy S24 or DirecTV. TikToks must be filmed, and pictures must be snapped for the 'gram, after all.