Note – House Republicans want to “slash $27 billion off food stamps in this month’s farm bill.” There is ‘zero’ chance that the Senate would agree to the cuts.
Cutting Food Stamps is NOT an intelligent vote-winning election year strategy. It will do virtually nothing to reign in America’s soaring federal budget deficits. And it will do nothing to actually help lift poverty-stricken U.S. citizens up out of their ongoing dependence on government programs.
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Shock study shows how 42M recipients spend their food stamps – and they’re not buying broccoli
By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com | Updated: 13:57 EDT, 20 May 2024 – Excerpts:
An alarming study has spotlighted how 42 million food stamp recipients spend their welfare handouts on ultra-processed junk food.
Coca-Cola, Sprite and other soft drinks are the most commonly-bought items via the $135 billion-a-year Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a new study says.
Candy, potato chips, frozen pizza, ice cream, cookies, and other ultra-processed food dominates the top 20 items, says a report from the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC).
Report author Matthew Dickerson says recipients spend ‘spend significant portions of their allotments on junk food.’
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The research comes as Washington lawmakers debate the text of an updated farm bill, with Republicans gunning to cut some $27 billion worth of nutrition program funding over 10 years.
Health experts warn against junk food, which is often high in calories, fat, and sugar, and low in fiber, which can lead to many health problems.
Poor diets can lead to weight gain, digestive issues, liver and kidney damage, depression and cancer….
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SNAP’s work requirements are ‘limited, weak, and are currently waived completely or in part in 34 states,’ … ‘The story of the food stamp program is one of expanding enrollment, higher spending, benefit payments growing faster than inflation,’ Dickerson says in his report.
The food stamp program that was launched in 1978 faces strengthening political headwinds.
The US House Agriculture Committee on Friday released its long-awaited farm bill draft that includes provisions to cut SNAP benefits by $27 billion over 10 years, a committee aide said.
The savings result from restricting the Department of Agriculture’s authority to update the cost of a sample grocery budget that underlies the benefit calculation. Benefits would continue to rise with inflation, a committee aide said.
Anti-hunger groups have said they oppose any cuts.
Congress faces steep odds to pass the bill this session as the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-majority Senate remain far apart.
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