Senator Susan Collins say a proposal in Congress to slash food stamps funding would hurt Mainers who need it most. House lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that would make around $4 billion dollars in cuts each year to the almost $80 billion dollar-a-year food stamp program. Maine is among the top five states with the biggest share of people on food stamps at 18-percent. Collins says the program needs to be reformed but the proposed cuts are too deep. “We have a lot of elderly people living in rural Maine who really depend on food stamps in order to get...
