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Food stamp cuts kick in as Congress debates more

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UPDATED: Friday, November 1, 2013 20:09
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Friday, November 1, 2013 3:04 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 47 million Americans who receive food stamps will see their benefits go down starting Friday, just as Congress has begun negotiations on further cuts to the program.

Negotiations on a wide-ranging farm bill, including cuts to the SNAP program, began Wednesday. Five-year farm bills passed by both the House and the Senate would cut food stamps, reductions that would come on top of the cut that will go into effect Friday. But the two chambers are far apart on the amounts.

Legislation passed by the GOP-controlled House would cut food stamps by an additional $4 billion annually and tighten eligibility requirements.

As Congress debates the cuts to the program, charities say they are preparing for the farm bill reductions as well as the scheduled cuts taking place Friday.

"Charities cannot fill the gap for the cuts being proposed to SNAP," said Maura Daly of Feeding America, a network of the nation's food banks. "We are very concerned about the impact on the charitable system."

Daly says food banks may have to as much as double their current levels of distribution if the House cuts were enacted. The Congressional Budget Office says as many as 3.8 million people could lose their benefits in 2014 if the House bill became law. http://news.yahoo.com/food-stamp-cuts-kick-congress-debates-more-05120
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Friday, November 1, 2013 8:09 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Ayep, and this on TOP of some hoity-toity management company taking over three other apartment complexes near us and booting out all the section8 residents...

And here's me, across the goddamn street from a LOT of suddenly homeless, now hungry, desperate people with winter coming on, trying to keep this little speck of dirt safe and sane.

What rooks me worst is how the dumb fucks who support shit like this, also then whinge and whine about increasing crime rates...
IT'S CALLED CAUSE AND EFFECT, duh.

-F

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