Conservative lawmakers think cuts to food stamps wont hurt anyone. Evidence says thats wrong.

[Judi Lynn]

Updated by Tara Golshan Jul 7, 2017, 8:30am EDT



A conservative member of the House of Representatives has a proposal for how to help pay for Republicans’ tax cut plan: Slash food stamps and welfare spending by harshening eligibility requirements. The Heritage Foundation projects this proposal, put forward by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) of the House Freedom Caucus, could result in more than $200 billion in cuts over the next 10 years — the deepest cut to the social safety net since 1990s welfare reform.

The savings would come from millions of people being thrown off the rolls of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But the plan’s advocates promise it will be painless.

"If an individual leaves the SNAP program without getting a job, then they must either have not needed the benefits in the first place or have found another way of obtaining the benefits they need,” said Darin Miller, Jordan’s spokesperson, explaining the Congress member’s position. “Either way, we are saving money without hurting anyone."

It’s an extraordinary claim. Could the government really slash hundreds of billions of dollars from programs that help the neediest families without hurting anyone? Poverty experts, including former welfare reform advisers from Republican administrations, disagree — they argue that these harsher eligibility requirements will leave a sizable population of the most vulnerable Americans without a safety net.

More:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/7/15894168/conservative-cut-food-stamp-evidence






Rep. Jim Jordan

[dhill926]

1. why do repubs always look like smug assholes...

it's uncanny....of course....being smug assholes helps....

here's one for you. Live on food stamps for a month....walk in their shoes...you know kind of a christian thing. Then let's see what you think.