{"id":2132,"date":"2013-09-16T14:56:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2013-09-16T14:56:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:56:46","slug":"tomorrow-call-congress-to-stop-snapfood-stamp-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/tomorrow-call-congress-to-stop-snapfood-stamp-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow: Call Congress to Stop SNAP\/Food Stamp Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the Coalition on Human Needs<\/a><\/p>\n

Stop the House bill to deny SNAP\/Food Stamps to 4-6 million people.
\nCall your Rep, toll-free:\u00a0\u00a0866-456-8824<\/a>*\u00a0TOMORROW,\u00a0Tuesday, September 17.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. House is expected to take up a bill this week that would cut SNAP by $40 billion over ten years.\u00a0 Every Member of Congress needs to hear that such an extreme proposal is simply beyond the pale.\u00a0 Food stamps have had bipartisan support for decades.\u00a0 (See\u00a0Stop Playing Politics with Hunger<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0by former Senators Bob Dole and Tom Daschle in the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>as an expression of that bipartisan support.)\u00a0 But now extremist members want toslash SNAP and hurt millions of children and their families, seniors, and poor adults without children.<\/p>\n

*Tomorrow: Call\u00a0866-456-8824<\/a><\/strong>, listen to the recorded message and enter your zip code.\u00a0 You’ll be connected right to your Representative’s office.\u00a0 Let them know you’re a constituent; tell them your name and the town you are calling from.\u00a0 Tell them:<\/p>\n

As your constituent, I urge you to vote against the extreme nutrition-only farm bill which would cut $40 billion from SNAP and deny assistance to 4-6 million poor people.\u00a0 This bill would be devastating to struggling Americans; by making more people hungry, it goes against many years of bipartisan support.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What’s bad about this bill?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0A\u00a0 few points:\u00a0 the bill would deny SNAP to millions of poor, jobless adults without children whose income averages only about one-fifth of the poverty line – about $2,500 a year.\u00a0 It would also end benefits for a whole family if a parent is not working at least 20 hours per week, even if her\/his child is only one year old, and even if unemployment remains high. And the bill gives states a REWARD for cutting off families – the state gets 50 percent of the reduced costs. Hundreds of thousands of children will lose free school meals. For decades, there has been bipartisan support for making sure that poor people can get the modest but vital SNAP benefits.\u00a0 You can help preserve a bipartisan majority that says that making millions hungrier is just too extreme.\u00a0\u00a0And let House leaders know that they can’t be so reckless with people’s lives just to satisfy their most extreme members.\u00a0Check out this op-ed from Ruth Marcus<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>for more information.<\/p>\n

Click here for talking points on the how proposals in the nutrition-only bill would impact SNAP participants.<\/a><\/p>\n

And…<\/strong><\/em>join the Twitter effort to share why you\u2019re #madashell about SNAP cuts.\u00a0<\/strong>Click here to learn why\u00a0<\/a>the Food Research and Action Center is \u201cmad as hell\u201d and join them on Twitter by using the hashtag #madashell.\u00a0Click here for sample tweets.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

* Thanks to Feeding America for the use of their toll-free line for the call-in day.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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