The timing is odd because I am hungry for my one meal of the day.
"Cut in food stamps brings wide worry; Families, aid agencies gird as assistance returns to pre-stimulus level" by Mattias Gugel | Globe Correspondent, November 18, 2013
WASHINGTON — Unemployment remains stubbornly high. Paycheck growth, especially for minimum-wage workers, is stagnant. Yet even lacking a full economic recovery, millions of needy families around the United States and in Massachusetts are losing a portion of their federal food stamp benefits this month.
But: Boston Globe Knee-$lapper
Massachusetts officials, community food banks, and advocates for the poor are bracing for the full impact of a $95 million cut in nutrition assistance for the state over the next 11 months. The cuts are part of a $5 billion nationwide reduction prompted by the expiration of a boost that was included in President Obama’s 2009 stimulus package.
“Obviously, in terms of the stimulus, it was meant to be a stimulus,” said Senator Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican and member of the Budget Committee. “So, I don’t think that anyone when they voted for it thought that we would have to sustain that level going forward.”
Food stamps was somehow considered job creation? Trying getting that one down.
That does not make the cuts any less difficult for the needy....
Networks of food pantries and church and community groups will be asked to pick up the slack....
Wow, same thing in the Philippines.
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Time for dinner. I shall return after.
