{"id":17947,"date":"2010-02-16T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/once_stigmatized_food_stamps_find_acceptance\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:00:21","slug":"once_stigmatized_food_stamps_find_acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17947","title":{"rendered":"Once Stigmatized, Food Stamps Find Acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, New York City officials were so reluctant to give out food stamps, they made people register one day and return the next just to get an application. The welfare commissioner said the program caused dependency and the poor were \u201cbetter off\u201d\u009d without it.<\/p>\n<p>Now the city urges the needy to seek aid (in languages from Albanian to Yiddish). Neighborhood groups recruit clients at churches and grocery stores, with materials that all but proclaim a civic duty to apply \u201d\u201d to \u201chelp New York farmers, grocers, and businesses.\u201d\u009d There is even a program on Rikers Island to enroll inmates leaving the jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApplying for food stamps is easier than ever,\u201d\u009d city posters say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/11\/us\/11foodstamps.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, New York City officials were so reluctant to give out food stamps, they made people register one day and return the next just to get an application. The welfare commissioner said the program caused dependency and the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17947\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,100,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}