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Today’s Action: Stop Republicans from denying food stamps to needy families
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Today’s Action: Stop Republicans from denying food stamps to needy families
The latest GOP scheme to target working class and poor families is rapidly gaining momentum in the House: a plan to dramatically expand 20-hour-a-week work requirements to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, aka food-stamps).
This latest GOP move to ‘reform’ our social welfare programs falls in line with Trump’s push to add work requirements to Medicaid (which will drop 100,000 recipients in Kentucky alone).
If passed, the changes to SNAP will drop more than one million recipients from food stamps…forcing families with very little to survive on even less.
1 in 8 Americans depend on food stamps, averaging only $1.40 per meal, and SNAP already includes work requirements. In fact, most working-age adults on SNAP who can work already do, but thanks to our paltry minimum wage laws, corporations often pay workers so little that they need additional assistance to survive. The Trump/GOP plan would raise the working-age to 62 and make it significantly harder for states to exempt vulnerable individuals from the work requirement.
For those who earn wages below the livable rate, or who experience unemployment, additional barriers will not improve their ability to work. This so-called reform is nothing more than Republican contempt for the poor and disabled — particularly minorities in high areas of unemployment.
We need to stop it.
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