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Odoreida

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Wed Mar 4, 2020, 11:54 AM Mar 2020

States scramble to prepare ahead of food stamps rule change (ABC)

States scramble to prepare ahead of food stamps rule change
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/states-scramble-prepare-ahead-food-stamps-rule-change-69379113

CHICAGO -- Having food stamps offers Richard Butler a stability he’s rarely known in his 25 years. He was in state custody at age 2, spent his teen years at a Chicago boys’ home and jail for burglary, and has since struggled to find a permanent home.

The $194 deposited monthly on his benefits card buys fresh produce and meat.

“It means the world to me,” said Butler, who shares a one-bedroom apartment with two others. “We can go without a lot of things, like phones and music. We can’t go without eating.”

But that stability is being threatened for people like Butler, who are able-bodied, without dependents and between the ages 18 and 49. New Trump administration rules taking effect April 1 put hundreds of thousands of people in his situation at risk of losing their benefits. They hit particularly hard in places like Illinois, which also has been dealing with a separate, similar change in the nation's third-largest city.

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States scramble to prepare ahead of food stamps rule change (ABC) (Original Post) Odoreida Mar 2020 OP
The end game for tRUMP and his cultists is to kill us all. We need to push back. Bigly. abqtommy Mar 2020 #1
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