The media is wrong: It’s good that able-bodied adults are leaving food stamps

That’s the narrative following Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’s recent announcement that 4.3 million people have left the food stamp rolls since the start of last year. As one ostensible expert told the Associated Press, the program has gotten “harder to access.” Another academic lamented to the media that “we have a persistent poverty problem in this country” — a problem apparently made worse if food stamps aren’t available to as many people as possible.

But in fact, people leaving food stamps is a profoundly good thing — both for the people themselves and the country as a whole. It may even be one of the Trump administration’s greatest accomplishments.

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It’s important to realize who, exactly, is getting off this welfare program. The answer: Millions of people who shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Food stamps were created for the truly vulnerable,