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appalachiablue

(41,053 posts)
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 04:05 PM Dec 2019

WH Finalizes Plan To End Food Aid For 750,000 Low- Income People By 2020, 'What Cruelty Looks Like'

'What Cruelty Looks Like': Trump Finalizes Plan to Strip Food Aid From 750,000 Low-Income People by 2020. "When it came to tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump felt the nation's finances were firm enough to give up more than $1,500,000,000,000. ($1.5 Trill Tax Cuts for Wealthy). When it's time to spend a fraction of that to help poor people eat, that's when the well has supposedly run dry." Common Dreams, Dec. 4, 2019.

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it has finalized a plan to tighten punitive work requirements for food stamp recipients, a move that would strip nutrition assistance from an estimated 750,000 low-income people by mid-2020. "Pay attention. This is what cruelty looks like," tweeted the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights in response to the completed rule, which would be the first of a series of proposed food stamp cuts to take effect.



The rule change, which was first unveiled earlier this year, would restrict states' ability to exempt people without dependents from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program's work requirements. The rule is set to take effect April 1, 2020. "For able-bodied adults without dependents, U.S. law limits SNAP benefits to three months, unless recipients are working or in training for 20 hours a week," the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. "States can waive those limits in areas where unemployment runs 20% above the national rate, which was 3.6% in October."

The Trump administration's proposal to curtail states' ability to waive work requirements sparked a flood of outrage from aid groups, Democratic lawmakers, and ordinary people. During the rule's 60-day public comment period, tens of thousands of people decried the measure as an immoral attack on the most vulnerable by an administration that has worked tirelessly to fatten the pockets of the rich. "The comments make it clear that most Americans not only oppose but are utterly repulsed by this plan to punish the poorest among us by denying them help to feed themselves," Scott Faber, senior vice president for government affairs at the Environmental Working Group (EWG), said in a statement in April.

According to an Urban Institute study (pdf) published last week, the Trump administration's three proposed SNAP changes combined would strip federal food aid from 3.7 million people. "The basics of the situation are clear," Rolling Stone's Patrick Reis wrote Tuesday. "When it came to tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump and Republicans felt the nation's finances were firm enough to give up more than $1,500,000,000,000. When it's time to spend a fraction of that to help poor people eat, that's when the well has supposedly run dry."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/04/what-cruelty-looks-trump-finalizes-plan-strip-food-aid-750000-low-income-people-2020

- WSJ, 'White House to Tighten Work Requirements for Food-Stamp Aid.' Rule limiting state discretion could make hundreds of thousands ineligible for assistance. The Trump administration is set to tighten work requirements for recipients of federal food aid, potentially rendering hundreds of thousands of people ineligible for the program by mid-2020. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-to-curb-states-control-of-food-aid-11575455401

-*ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP* (EWG), Learn more about the environment, food and healthy living:
https://www.ewg.org/key-issues/food/healthy-eating
https://www.ewg.org/

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WH Finalizes Plan To End Food Aid For 750,000 Low- Income People By 2020, 'What Cruelty Looks Like' (Original Post) appalachiablue Dec 2019 OP
The REAL Donald Trump is standing up, standing up, standing up. Newest Reality Dec 2019 #1
It looks like 19th c. Victorian England & Dickens, the real side appalachiablue Dec 2019 #2
They're still doing Trickle-Down via Corporate Welfare. CaptYossarian Dec 2019 #3
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2019 #7
Let them eat ... GeorgeGist Dec 2019 #4
meanwhile, Melania is hysterical because someone mentioned Barron's name Skittles Dec 2019 #5
Kick dalton99a Dec 2019 #6

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. The REAL Donald Trump is standing up, standing up, standing up.
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 04:15 PM
Dec 2019

I think we will be seeing the monster he is rearing its hideous head with deplorable things before he is gone. That spawn of hell is a real bane to humanity and a detriment to all, and to all, a goodnight.



appalachiablue

(41,053 posts)
2. It looks like 19th c. Victorian England & Dickens, the real side
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 04:27 PM
Dec 2019

not the more charming version he created to sell ideas and his works. Rolling back decades of progress, GOP style.



Children at British workhouse, c. 1895.

Response to CaptYossarian (Reply #3)

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
5. meanwhile, Melania is hysterical because someone mentioned Barron's name
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 09:33 PM
Dec 2019

she's a heartless piece of shit, just like her pussy grabbing husband

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