“Hungry” has a pretty specific meaning, and being stuffed with bag snacks, soda and other junk food is not “hungry”. You may notice that the Lancet report linked to in your article talks about malnutrition, not hunger.
The thing is healthy staples are fairly inexpensive and food stamp handouts can be spent on those instead of empty junk. But a lot of poor people can’t be bothered to prepare food. Don’t tell me how they all work 12 hours a day on multiple jobs and don’t have time — that’s just not true for most of them. Sure, there are structural problems, but you can’t blame every shitty outcome you observe on society. There’s a thing called free will, which some people conveniently don’t like to recognize when the result is poor.
The thing is healthy staples are fairly inexpensive and food stamp handouts can be spent on those instead of empty junk. But a lot of poor people can’t be bothered to prepare food. Don’t tell me how they all work 12 hours a day on multiple jobs and don’t have time — that’s just not true for most of them. Sure, there are structural problems, but you can’t blame every shitty outcome you observe on society. There’s a thing called free will, which some people conveniently don’t like to recognize when the result is poor.