Creator Kiki Ruff teaches her viewers to cook on a budget using skills she learned during her time on food stamps. Along the way, she’s racked up over half a million followers.
Recent spending cuts to rural safety net programs have some bracing for financial hardship, in light of what they went through during the Great Recession.
Thousands of grocery stores around the country rely on customers who pay with SNAP benefits. Some could close because of cuts Congress just approved to the food assistance program.
SNAP, otherwise known as food stamps, only provides around $6 a day per person on average — and lawmakers recently moved to spend even less on the program.