Today’s Action: Stop Republicans from denying food stamps to needy families

House Republicans are continuing their agenda of decimating the working class and poor, proposing last week 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.

Call or email your Representative and tell them ABSOLUTELY NOT to the GOP expansion of work requirements for food stamps.

1 in 8 Americans depend on food stamps and SNAP recipients average only $1.40 per meal. And 83% of SNAP benefits to go families with children, elderly, or a disabled person.

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 wages so low 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 no more than deep Republican contempt for the poor and disabled, single parents with unreliable access to childcare, and particularly minorities in high areas of unemployment.

We need to stop it.

Call or email your Representatives and demand their disapproval of the GOP plan to expand work requirements to SNAP.