Related A 60-something woman with $140 in monthly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits doesn’t want to buy “junk” food but struggles to afford the produce she needs as a diabetic. A food-insecure woman in her 80s, impoverished since her husband’s death, is too ashamed to ask her children for financial assistance and contemplates suicide. And a functionally illiterate man with annual income of less than $12,000 relies on family members to fill out benefits paperwork and hunts game to supplement his $16 monthly SNAP benefits.
This is just a tiny sampling of the challenges faced by the 25 million seniors in the U.S. who struggle to make ends meet. They were collected for a 2020 report conducted by Social Policy Research Associates and Mathematica on behalf of the U.S. Department Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to better understand how to improve access to SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, among this extremely vulnerable pop
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GDP estimates are down 40%.
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GDP estimates are down 40%.
They never should have been at 10% in the first place but we can take the Fed s complete inability to accurately predict what will happen in the economy as a given and just focus on the trends. Other leading Economorons have been bringing their estimates down as well as the grand re-opening is not going as smoothly as first thought.
The range of predictions is staggering – from 2% to 7% among those surveyed – leaving a gap the size of Canada s entire economy in-between. Speaking of Canada, our neighbor to the North has re-locked down their most populous province (and, if you can name 3 you are a leading Canada expert) as their re-opening led to a disastrous resurgence of the virus – particularly the more contageous new strains.
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The sites reported clusters of adverse reactions, but it s not known whether the shot was the direct cause.
European regulators are also investigating rare blood clots tied to the vaccine, but experts aren t worried.
Johnson & Johnson s coronavirus vaccine rollout hit several unfortunate snags this week some far worse than others.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that 62 million of the company s vaccine doses must be checked for contamination, following an error at a Maryland manufacturing plant that already ruined 15 million doses. The plant s workers accidentally mixed up some vaccine ingredients last month.