Safety net in name only

These aren't glitches. They're designed specifically to make everything as difficult as possible.

As the coronavirus ripped through Louisiana’s economy over the past two months, a historic number of people applied for food assistance, many after losing their jobs from government-mandated shutdowns.

But huge swaths of those people were deemed ineligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because of supercharged unemployment payments that inadvertently boosted their income above the threshold to qualify for food stamps.