Can you eat on $4 a day?

If you dined out for lunch or picked up a specialty coffee drink this morning, you’re likely already over the daily allotment for the more than 46 million Americans living on food stamps. Those enrolled in the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, receive on average $125.35 a person each month, which works out to be about $4 per person a day. (Many living on food stamps do have an income to further supplement the cost of food, but it’s not much: A family of four must make less than $31,525 to be SNAP-eligible.)  [Read more at METROFOCUS]