Trump's latest attack on food stamp recipients will throw 700,000 off the rolls — and more attacks are coming.
To save thousandths of a percent of the federal budget, Trump wants to throw half a million children off the school lunch program.Moreover, the rationale for the tightening is upside down. Food stamps don’t foster joblessness — they’re an antidote.
Wednesday’s rule change is the first of three that the Trump administration has in the works for the food stamp program, which is formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. As we reported earlier, that change would strip food stamps from about 1 million households with children and render about a half-million children no longer eligible for free school meals.
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