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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Trump administration plans to gut food stamps, hitting red states hardest
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3.6 million Americans will lose food stamps under a regulatory maneuver nobody in Congress likes. 1.9 million of them live in Trump country.
One in every twelve people who receives food stamps nationwide will lose them under the policy some 3.6 million people, according to new analysis by Mathematica, the private policy analysis firm the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has relied upon for the past 40 years.
I was surprised by the extent of the impact in some of the southern states, such as Texas, Mathematica senior research programmer Sarah Lauffer said. The impact was always going to be severe in states that apply the current rules in the most generous fashion, but southern states have generally not extended their eligibility lines quite as far. Despite that, Lauffer said, her team found 34% of elderly Texans receiving benefits will lose them through this rule.
Almost 400,000 people in Texas currently receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits would lose them. Another 328,000 in Florida, 200,000 in New York, 97,000 in Georgia, and 176,000 in Washington state face cuts, to name just a few standouts.
Almost one in five Wisconsin households currently getting help with their groceries will lose the benefit, as well as 16% of such households in Oregon, Nevada, Iowa, and Delaware. Two of every 13 SNAP households in Minnesota and Texas will have to find food money elsewhere.
https://thinkprogress.org/the-trump-administration-plans-to-gut-food-stamps-hitting-red-states-hardest/
Gotta free up that money for the next GOP cash grab in early 2020.
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tanyev
(42,356 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,257 posts)My guess is 75% of the Deplorables that are in this group will vote for him again. You just cant overcome stoopid.
Quemado
(1,262 posts)To them, Trump is a hero because he took food stamps away from "those other people".
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)I've seen a few Trump supporters say that they know Trump will screw them over, like every politician before him..., but, they know that Trump will screw over the "other guy" even more than them, so it makes it okay. "other guy" meaning anybody that is not a straight white male.
bdamomma
(63,652 posts)to the point of them committing suicide. Sad really sad what is happening and we need to eradicate this disease.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)You either destroy it or it destroys you.
Which is it going to be?
NoMoreRepugs
(9,257 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Turns out, all that time we were losing ground.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Less food for more people than ever! Considering, that, not only are we talking about many people who are the working poor and can't survive on the meager, "managing" wages, but I think that children still comprise almost half of the SNAP recipients over all.
So, kids, get a jab! No free food for you little, needy advantage takers!
I keep wondering how the grocery store lobby is going to react to this, though? It seems like they will be taking a big hit due to the starvation budget.
Also, What will Walmart and other chains do with weak, emaciated workers if taxpayers are not subsidizing their slave wages?
Firestorm49
(4,002 posts)Trumps twisted, maniacal America.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)the entire ReFascist Party holds those values very dear.
Think of the potential unrest that may be fomented by increasing hunger and potential starvation?
That will work out well. Take a hammer and pound on the fingers of people clinging to the edge of a precipice. Sure.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)(Voltaire)
New Breed Leader
(614 posts)Remember when that white woman trump supporter said that?
a kennedy
(29,462 posts)apnu
(8,722 posts)They can reap what they sowed.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)bdamomma
(63,652 posts)they want to minimize the population and start their own Aryan race. Fuck that.