To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Congess: Don't Make Cuts for SNAP Benefits in the Farm Bill.
Senators: Support the Gilibrand amendment to the Farm Bill being worked on this week and don't cut SNAP benefits. Representatives: Support the McGovern amendment to H.R.1947 and eliminate cuts to the Farm Bill, which will be worked on later this month.
Why is this important?
Nearly 50% of the people receiving food stamps are children. The 20 billion dollars in cuts proposed by the House would make 2 million households ineligible for this benefit. For children, no food stamps means no eligibility for a free school lunch, which certainly leads to an inability to learn and may mean no food at all for them that day. This is happening NOW, how can you even think of making it worse? The Senate is proposing 4 billion dollars in cuts, but even that is too much. Food stamp benefits need to be INCREASED! A hungry child is a child who can't learn, and a generation of people who cannot fulfill their potential is a generation of workers who cannot compete in the global marketplace.