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From: nwaakwukwo <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:13 PM
Subject: [DopeXResistance-L.A.] House Bill Would Cut 3.8 Million People
>From Food Stamp Rolls
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House Bill Would Cut 3.8 Million People From Food
Stamp Rolls
Snippets:
"The welfare reform bill said that able-bodied adults without dependents
could only get three months of food aid in a three-year period, unless they
had a job or were in a state job-training program. Since the recession,
states have been given waivers so that unemployed adults can keep getting
food stamps. The House bill would cut back on those waivers. The
Congressional Budget Office estimates that 1.7 million people would lose
SNAP benefits as a result."
"For advocates like Brett Kincaid, the outreach director at Arkansas
Advocates for Children and Families <http://www.aradvocates.org/>, the cuts
proposed by the House bill just don't make sense. Kincaid says unemployment
remains high, and when jobs are hard to come by, SNAP is even more
important."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/18/223627228/house-bill-would-cut-40-billion-from-food-stamp-program
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JAI
RAC-LA
