There are a number of reasons for non-participation in the program: some households are unaware that they are eligible for food stamp benefits or have received misinformation regarding the program.
Having struggled through the $4-a-day food stamp challenge in the spring of 2015, she thought emulating the famous entrepreneur's teenage challenge would be impossible.
Rising food and fuel prices, inadequate food stamp benefits, unemployment, underemployment, and rent or mortgage costs were factors reported as forcing an average of 1520 percent more people.