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“People think that cutting Medi-Cal, cutting food stamps or whatever isn’t going to affect that many people,” Cassandra said.

The fraudulent app available for download on the Apple App Store is called “Ebt edge - food stamps” which bears a similar name to the real state-sponsored mobile application “ebtEDGE,” officials said.

When they use programs like welfare or food stamps, they see it as temporary and justified.

The “survival of the fittest” agenda permeates the cutbacks in food stamps, housing and heating assistance, which are based on beliefs about the “undeserving poor” — those who are supposedly lazy, or unmotivated, or greedy.

By 1981-82, the U.S. economy plunged into recession, as the new Reagan administration was cutting social services, including Medicaid, food stamps, Aid for Families with Dependent Children and other programs.