{"id":1638372,"date":"2022-09-10T11:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T15:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638372"},"modified":"2022-09-10T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T15:50:01","slug":"pentagon-tells-struggling-army-soldiers-families-to-apply-for-food-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-tells-struggling-army-soldiers-families-to-apply-for-food-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Tells Struggling Army Soldiers, Families To Apply For Food Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-tells-struggling-army-soldiers-families-to-apply-for-food-stamps%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638372&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pentagon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagon<\/a> is recommending U.S. soldiers struggling with soaring food prices apply for welfare, in a move that underscores both low military pay and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/economist-reveals-when-america-can-expect-one-whopper-of-a-recession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic headwinds<\/a> facing the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation came last month from Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston, and directs Army soldiers and their families to apply for food stamps through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program known by the acronym SNAP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith inflation affecting everything from gas prices to groceries to rent, some Soldiers and their families are finding it harder to get by on the budgets they\u2019ve set and used before,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/258256\">the written guidance from Grinston reads<\/a>. \u201cSNAP is a U.S. government program that provides benefits to eligible low-income individuals and families via an electronic benefits transfer card that can be used like a debit card to purchase eligible food in authorized retail food stores. Service members and their families may be eligible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The guidance points soldiers to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and links them to the federal welfare program\u2019s website.&#8221;<br \/>\u2013Billions and billions for Biden&#8217;s suicidal Green New Deal and Ukraine, no money fo feed our soldiers and families!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nEX2AckBWY\">https:\/\/t.co\/nEX2AckBWY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laughing Libertarian (@William16723077) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/William16723077\/status\/1568608357191192577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The official guidance includes other lending and financial counseling programs available to soldiers and lists contact information to help them enroll in SNAP.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Biden administration and much of the media insists the U.S. is not in a recession, the nation has experienced negative GDP growth in each of the last two quarters, meeting the traditional definition for a recession. In addition, inflation is running at nearly double-digit percentages and food prices in particular have risen at the fastest rate in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Eaglen,\u00a0is a resident fellow\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0American Enterprise Institute who studies defense budgets and military readiness, said nearly a quarter of enlisted men and women can\u2019t afford to put food on the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they need is more money,\u201d Eaglen wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/inflation-catches-the-pentagon-flat-footed-army-paychecks-food-stamps-defense-department-budget-ppi-troops-11662405897?mod=hp_opin_pos_6\">Wall Street Journal column<\/a> this week. \u201cThe Defense Department\u2019s flat-footed response to inflation will result in a real\u2014and cumulative\u2014pay cut for service members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eaglen said the Pentagon received more federal funding from Congress than it had requested, but ignored inflation concerns and short-changed the men and women who serve.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she wrote, \u201cCongress will have to appropriate even more to save America\u2019s troops from the Defense Department\u2019s negligence. It\u2019s the only way to get troops and their families the financial lifeline they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Base pay for the lowest-ranking Army private is $21,999.60, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goarmy.com\/benefits\/while-you-serve\/money-pay.html\">GoArmy.com<\/a>. Salaries for enlisted men and women the lower ranks rise gradually through promotions, but not always by years of service alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is recommending U.S. soldiers struggling with soaring food prices apply for welfare, in a move that underscores both low military pay and the economic headwinds facing the nation as a whole. The recommendation came last month from Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston, and directs Army soldiers and their families to apply &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1638374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1638374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}