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Cuts to SNAP benefits will push millions over the hunger cliff
The Hill ^
| 03/07/2023
| KAREN DOLAN,
Posted on 03/07/2023 1:53:34 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Millions of people in the U.S. are now facing the precipice of a hunger cliff.
Starting in 2020, the pandemic pulled back the curtain on the tattered state of the U.S. safety net and the millions of families who were falling through. Hunger rates were expected to soar like they did during the Great Recession.
But that’s not what happened.
Thanks to a pandemic expansion of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, millions of Americans kept food on their tables during an unprecedented public health and economic emergency. These “emergency allotments” made food easier to access and increased the number of people who were eligible. Hunger rates stayed put during the emergency — and poverty actually fell.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2stupid2live; benefits; hunger; millions; snap
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Screw you Karen. Its sad people are so dependent on government.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Just get rid of the Obama-phone.
To: ChicagoConservative27
WOMEN AND MINORITIES HIT HARDEST
To: ChicagoConservative27
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posted on
03/07/2023 1:55:51 PM PST
by
beethovenfan
(The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
To: ChicagoConservative27
“Cuts to SNAP benefits will push millions over the hunger
cliff...”
That’s funny. My taxes did that.
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posted on
03/07/2023 1:56:27 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Are there no cockroaches? Are there no June Bugs?
WEF wants to know...
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posted on
03/07/2023 1:59:48 PM PST
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Each grocery store probably has a help wanted sign out front..
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:00:02 PM PST
by
mowowie
To: ChicagoConservative27
Get a job. They’re plentiful.
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:00:53 PM PST
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: ChicagoConservative27
MILLIONS!
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:02:25 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: ChicagoConservative27
Someone should ask her how Fedzilla defines hunger, AKA food insecurity...
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:03:08 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Obesity-caused heart-disease, cancer, diabetes and kidney disease are among the top causes of death in America, so a radical cut in SNAP, forcing Americans to eat less, could have massive positive knock-on effects for Americans and the Fed.gov budget.
It would also greatly reduce crime and murder rates in inner cities, as more people were forced to spend their time at work.
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:04:25 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: ChicagoConservative27
Meanwhile...
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:05:05 PM PST
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: mewzilla
hunger = the inability to get a couple of Egg McMuffins at 4 p.m.
To: ChicagoConservative27
They got along on the entitlement before the increase. They can do it again.
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:08:51 PM PST
by
beekay
(Missing Trump yet? )
To: beekay
Darn, you mean they will have to get jobs?
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:21:23 PM PST
by
brookwood
(Clinging to our guns, religion, healthy children, traditional marriage, high standard of living...)
To: ChicagoConservative27
SNAP has been expanded so much since Obama that middle class people receive food stamps. It needs to be cut way back.
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:22:04 PM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
We tried to tell Trump that the Dims would try to make the “temporary” covid relief SNAP benefits a permanent “right”.
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:30:25 PM PST
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Most probably live in “food deserts” because their youngin’s drove food stores out of the area.
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:33:30 PM PST
by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: brookwood
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:34:34 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: beethovenfan
I, for one, am happy at the outcome. They should have read the Ant and the Grasshopper.
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posted on
03/07/2023 2:35:49 PM PST
by
joma89
(Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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