Summary
This summer, the Bangor Daily News has twice reported about food stamp recipients purchasing bottled water in order to collect the 5- cent bottle return and spend the money on something else. While this is clearly an unfortunate misuse of public money, it is also a rare occurrence.
The newspaper's continued focus on this issue is portraying a fraud practiced by a small minority of food stamp recipients as a widespread problem. In doing so, the BDN is perpetrating negative stereotypes about poor people by presenting food stamp recipients as cheats and frauds.See the full content of this document
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Stereotyping the Poor
In my experience, the vast majority of food stamp r...
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