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Reverse Robin Hood
Sep 20, 2013 | By
CAP Action War Room
House Republicans Vote to Slash Food Stamps
Yesterday, in a party line vote, 217 House Republicans voted
to cut $40 billion from the food stamps program. The vote represents
the latest example of the party’s increasingly out of touch, immoral,
and economically backward positions that favor the rich at the expense
of the poor and the middle class.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that Thursday’s cuts will bump 3.8 million off the program
next year, with an additional 2.8 million losing them each year on
average over the next decade. Additionally, an estimated 210,000
children will lose access to free school lunch programs and 55,000 jobs
will be lost in the first year of cuts alone.
But this isn’t just about numbers. Here are three quotes from Proverbs that House Republicans clearly ignored yesterday:
For more on how food stamps benefit Americans, check out this Center for American Progress and Half in Ten infographic:
BOTTOM LINE: With over one in five children
living in households that run short on food, it is time to stop playing
politics with hunger and work to pass a Farm Bill that does not
increase poverty and hardship.
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