The share of adults in households that have struggled to get enough to eat has risen in the U.S this summer, following the end of food stamp expansions earlier this year.
That’s how lottery winners—including actual millionaires—wind up getting food stamps. In 2012 Amanda Clayton of Detroit was revealed to be receiving $200 in monthly food aid despite having won $1 million the year before. “I feel that it’s OK because I have no income,” she said, ...
Expiration date stamps on food began to emerge in the 1970s when consumer advocates complained about the lack of assurances that packaged foods were still safe and edible at the time they were purchased. More recently, there have been complaints that the date stamps are intentionally inaccurate to...