23-Year-Old Reporter Goes on Food Stamps
In a first-person account, The Daily Caller‘s part-time 23-year-old reporter Matthew Boyle, who is simultaneously earning a master’s degree at American University, goes on food stamps for a three-part story.
Reasons for writing the story:
1) To see how easy or hard it is to get them (Answer: Not hard even if you are middle class and have a job. The process isn’t so simple, however, and it’s long. Much like going to the DMV, you have to have all your papers in order or else deal with returning multiple times.)
2) To experience what it is like being in the federal supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and getting $105 a month.
Excerpt:
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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