Phoenix mayor scrimps and pinches while living on food stamps

Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton spent seven days scarfing down plastic foam cups of ramen noodles and discounted chicken while trying to limit his grocery bill to $29 for the week. That's the amount allotted to anyone on the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, informally known as food stamps. "It's only for a week," he wrote on Facebook. "If I were doing this with no end in sight, I probably wouldn’t be so pleasant." Stanton's experiment was part of Hunger Awareness Month and an attempt to better understand the decisions facing "people living in difficult circumstances." We'd high-five him for his efforts, especially since we would've blown our $4.19 daily budget on pumpkin spice lattes. [Source]

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