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The problem is the cost of living in this city and state is rediculously high and MANY MANY working and middle class families barely scrape by. Lower income families get free meals, hundreds a month in foodstamps, state medical insurance, day care assistance, heating assistance, housing assistance etc...while those hovering slightly over the income guidelines do not qualify for any if those programs and pay full price for everything leaving them in worse financial situations then the "low income" families. For example, If you make 40k a year as a family of 5 you get all those benefits. If you make 45k for a family of 5 you get NONE of that. With health insurance in some cases costing families more than $500 a month alone, never mind child care costs and everything else...well you can see what happens. (These numbers are just examples and not actual guidelines.)

Also, why if a family gets several hundred dollars a month is foodstamps do they also need free breakfast and lunch? What about all the food the foodstamps bought?