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Matt Trivisonno
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Matt Trivisonno's personal blog at trivisonno.com covers economics, politics and writing. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Matt Trivisonno's blog for its charts of US food stamp (SNAP) enrollment and related economic data, cited in threads on household finances and jobs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /food-stamps-charts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-09-09
What Hacker News says?
As of 2012 food costs as a % of spending are the lowest in the US than anywhere else in the world. [0] During the Obama administration there was a massive increase in enrollment with the SNAP program. [1] Between government programs and charitable organizations I'd argue it is practically impossible for someone to go hungry through no fault of their own. You'd have to be unlucky on a cosmic level. [0] http://www.ibt…
Comment linking /food-stamps-charts
on “40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense”Submitted My Kingdom for a Capitalist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat about the number of Americans receiving food stamps? 2008: 28 million 2016: 45 million http://www.trivisonno.com/food-stamps-charts
Comment linking /food-stamps-charts
on “The Fed Wants to Test How Banks Would Handle Negative Rates”>>>> Would it then not make sense for people working poor jobs to quit and just get the guaranteed basic income along with all their free time? In some states, this is evidence this is already happening: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/08/10/shocking-fox-news-repor... Some facts to support your question: "As of the latest data released on September 6, 2013, the total is 47.76 million, which is more than the entire po…
Comment linking /food-stamps-charts
on “Low pay and the rise of the machines”This is doubly false. First, offshore jobs has not led to high unemployment in the US; 2 million jobs were offshored between 1994 and 2007 even as the unemployment rate dropped from 6.6% to 4.4%[1][2] - apparently most of those people found other work. Secondly, the reduced emissions is not caused by offshored jobs, either; US manufacturing output is up this year[3] even as emissions have dropped 8%. Not that a clea…
Comment linking /offshoring
on “US Carbon Emissions Hit 20-Year Low”