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Midnight Grocery Madness

Filed in archive General on July 3, 2008

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CBS News has been running a series of reports about "The Other America" recently. The way things are going, it might soon be titled "Most of America". Anyway, this week they visited a supermarket on the south side of Chicago that gets a midnight rush on the first of every month - that's when the money that used to be "food stamps" gets loaded electronically on to the debit cards that are now used.

What I found interesting about the report - and it's to CBS' credit that they point this out - is that many of the people using the food stamp money are employed, and employed in "respected" industries such as health care. They can't be brushed off as lazy or stupid; they're working for a living and can't make ends meet with the rising costs of food, gas, etc. It's kind of scary.

Anyway, if I can handle the technology, you should be able to watch below. A little sobering video as we prepare to celebrate our nation's birth...





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