Guest Column by Dylan Hewitt and Claire Shimberg | SNAP back to reality
(11/25/13 1:58am)
At Penn, where spending $9 at Chipotle is nothing, $15 at McDonald’s is a funny drunk mistake, a few dollars for Wawa mac ‘n’ cheese is simply a necessity and being surrounded by free food is a given, it is hard to imagine not having enough money for food. But for the 47 million Americans — 87 percent of whom live in households with children, seniors or people with disabilities — who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, hunger is a reality.