On Nov. 1, the largest cuts in the history of our country’s food stamp program, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, went into effect when the increase ordained by the 2009 economic stimulus package expired. The reductions, which total $5 billion, have already touched more than 47 million people-1 in 7 Americans. I spoke to one food stamps recipient, a single mother in Washington, D.C., named Debra, about how she was coping financially and emotionally with her post-cut ‘new normal.
Friday, November 15th, 2013
Meat Is the First Thing to Go
Author: KATY WALDMAN
Source: Slate
Publication Date: Nov. 13 2013 11:52 PM
Link: Meat Is the First Thing to Go
Source: Slate
Publication Date: Nov. 13 2013 11:52 PM
Link: Meat Is the First Thing to Go
Stephan: Ronlyn tells me that when we moved to Whidbey Island and she volunteered to be a baker for Whidbey Island Nourishes (WIN), the program that feeds children on the island, she was baking for 60 kids. The next year it was 200, the year after 240. Today is it 360 children who depend on the lunches and healthy treats Ronlyn and the other women make. That's one small island. The situation about food in the U.S. is reaching appalling proportions and the recent cut in the SNAP program forced on the country by the Right, I think, is one of the most immoral things done by policy makers in our history. There are states in this country, particularly the Theocratic Rightist states, that now have a third world quality of life. Here is that truth. It should make all of us ashamed that this now defines the United States.
