As many as three million Americans, rely on food-stamps to put food on their plates. Food-stamps help the eligible poor avoid starvation, has the potential to keep them healthy and their children strong.
I believe, a just society needs to take care of its poor population and become a democracy for all instead of a plutocracy for a selected few.
Leaders in the House of Representatives have proposed a farm bill that would cut $1.6 billion in aid from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, part of $3.5 billion in proposed annual cuts.
The bill, which has been offered as a bipartisan compromise by House Agriculture Committee Chair Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., could force as many as three million low-income people off of food assistance programs.
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the change in criteria would cause 280,000 children to lose eligibility for free or reduced school lunch. The cuts also would eliminate state flexibility in administering the TANF and SNAP programs.
Some of the other deprivations of benefits to the poor include:
The proposed cuts would cause significant hardship to several million low-income households.
The bill would terminate SNAP eligibility to several million people. By eliminating categorical eligibility, which over 40 states have adopted, the bill would cut 2 to 3 million low-income people off food assistance.
Several hundred thousand low-income children would lose access to free school meals. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 280,000 children in low-income families whose eligibility for free school meals is tied to their receipt of SNAP would lose free meals when their families lost SNAP benefits.
Some working families would lose access to SNAP because they own a modest car, which they often need to commute to their jobs. Eliminating categorical eligibility would cause some low-income working households to lose benefits simply because of the value of a modest car they own. These families would be forced to choose between owning a reliable car and receiving food assistance to help feed their families.
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The poor already live a miserable existence. A just society should not continue to increase that misery.