SNAP Eligibility – Missouri

Some Missouri lawmakers rethinking food stamp ban for drug felons, By Jesse Bogan, March 6, 2012, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Somewhere beyond rock bottom, there was a dark pit that consumed Christine McDonald. The former crack addict bounced between parks, prisons and abandoned buildings. She has scars all over her body, including her face, where a rat bit her when she passed out one night with stolen lunch meat in her mouth. All that was before she became a community activist, a voter, a mother. That was before she suffered a rare eye disease that left her blind. And that was before she became a witness at the state Capitol, encouraging the passage of a bill that would allow drug felons to be eligible for food stamps. McDonald lost her job in December but under current law, she’s banned for life from receiving food stamps…”