Why Are Food Stamps Important

*No money. No food. I know exactly what that feels like. My mother was a single mom, who did her best to provide for me. In 2009, she was laid off from her job and we did not know where our next meal was coming from. So, she applied for government assistance and we got food stamps. I know what it is like not to have money for food and clothes. My mother and I were definitely living below the poverty line. I can honestly say, if we didn’t have help from the government, I don’t know how we could have survived, until she went back to work. I am so thankful that is not my situation anymore. I can remember as a child, opening the refrigerator looking for food but there wasn’t anything in there. Food stamps kept my mother and me from starving daily. the government gave my mother a sense of relief while she wasn’t working. My mother could relax knowing that her child wasn’t going to go to bed hungry. The government programs saved me. There is no way in hell I would be here right now if it weren’t for the …show more content…
Today’s society has to realize that people living in poverty need financial assistance. In 2012, food stamps kept four million people out of poverty (United States). Government assistance programs are a necessity. There are Americans who are eager to work but don’t make enough money to have a basic standard of living. Senior citizens depending on social security checks are liable to be in poverty because they are on a fixed income. In the situation with my mother, she wanted to work but her job didn’t have the money. The government helped my mother and me in our time of need. Government programs were made to help people in poverty, not for people with no motivation in life. Sometimes in life, a father loses his job or a mother loses her job, and require support, and that is what the government assistance programs are