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Congressional Food Stamp Challenge

A couple of Congresspeople are subsisting on food stamps for a week to experience what it's like for the working poor in the U.S. They have $21 to last them 7 days. That's the average amount of federal assistance a food stamp recipient gets a week. $3 a day.

As an added bonus, both of them are blogging about the experience so we can all read along. I think this is a really great exercise. It was also recently undertaken by Ted Kulongoski, the governor of Oregon.