Imagine standing in a grocery store checkout line with a modest cart: bread, peanut butter, frozen veggies, a rotisserie chicken, and a 2-liter soda.
Nothing extravagant.
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You swipe your EBT card, and the cashier pauses. “Sorry,” she says, pointing to the soda. “That’s no longer covered. The government says you don’t need it.”
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You look around, confused. But sure enough, there it is, buried in a footnote from the USDA. Your choice has been overruled. The government, after all, is here to help.
That’s not a fictional anecdote. It’s now policy in Nebraska.
In a quiet but telling shift, Nebraska has become the first state in the nation to ban soda and energy drinks from being purchased with SNAP
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