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27 March 2013updated 27 Sep 2015 5:34am

Food stamps are just capital controls for poor people

If you want to introduce higher prices for poor people, at least do it openly.

By Alex Hern

The Guardian‘s Patrick Butler reports that food stamps are to replace the cash payments currently received by vulnerable people in short-term financial crisis. He writes:

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