An incident at an Albertson's sparked a recent social experiment to test what grocery store customers would do if they witnessed a cashier being rude to a customer on food stamps.
The decline has been attributed not just to an improving economy, but a rumored federal rule change by the Trump administration regarding eligibility to obtain a green card.
'When able-bodied adults on welfare are incentivized by work requirements to find and keep a job, they go back to work in more than 600 different industries and earn twice as much as they did when they were on welfare.'
California managed to manipulate their unemployment statistics and receive a waiver to work requirements for certain food stamp recipients in spite of the booming economy.