Sentences with phrase «funding for food stamp»

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When the House of Representatives passed its version of the farm bill in July, members added funding for rural development, conservation, food stamps and international food aid.

Rather than taking money from food stamps to fund the negligible six cent increase for school meals, let Congress keep the money, says Bruske.

The idea that it is okay because at least it gets people angry and ready to act is more than a little scary, as it conjures up images of the townsfolk storming the local school with their pitchforks and flaming torches; meanwhile, the villain is in Washington DC taking 6 cents from food stamps to fund 64 cents worth of new requirements for the schools.

I can not see the rational of taking money for its funding form the food stamp program.

As previously reported here, many House Democrats balked at passing a bill that paid for child nutrition programs out of SNAP (food stamp) funds.

Chilton and other anti-hunger groups oppose the Senate version because it would take future increases slated for the food stamps program and instead put them towards improving school lunch funding and nutrition.

Still, food stamp advocates say there is a chance to increase funding for school lunch without using food stamp cuts — put the whole thing into the omnibus.

2008 FRAC, state officials, elderly advocates, and other anti-hunger allies secure more than $ 10 billion in 10 - year added funding in the 2008 Farm Bill for food stamps (now renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP), including the first boost in the program's minimum benefit in more than 30 years.

The Republican budget cuts housing assistance, food stamps, heating projects, community development funds — all at the expense of the middle class and working families — while they cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans.

Cuomo's campaign noted achievements like a $ 15 minimum wage, marriage equality, gun safety legislation, banning fracking, ending finger printing for food stamps and $ 27 billion in education funding.

A person using food stamps for a religious feast, hosting regular Bible studies at a subsidized apartment, or spending Medicaid funds at a Catholic hospital with a crucifix in every room and priests on the staff likewise do not violate the U.S. or state constitutions.

In her view, that is probably just a start, because the inadequate funding of other social programs — Medicaid, childcare support, food stamps, housing assistance — compounds the college affordability problem for low - income families.

Walker says he hopes to fast - track the state budget process, expand the taxpayer - funded school voucher program, require drug tests for those seeking food stamps and unemployment benefits, and continue income and property tax cuts.

At DSS, the state funding cuts to the food stamp program mean that, beginning Aug. 1, immigrants who move to the U.S. legally will need to be in the country for five years before they qualify for help.

Gleick's 2007 congressional testimony and comments by settledscience can not hide the cruelty of government policies that left so many citizens hopeless, homelessness, unemployed, using food pantries or food stamps to get food, living in homeless shelters (Agape homes), getting funds for unemployment, welfare, social security, disability, living with parents, or attending college on borrowed government funds with no way to find a field of study that will assure employment after graduation.

Government funded programs that do not have as their principal purpose the provision of, or payment for, the cost of health care but which do incidentally provide such services are not health plans (for example, programs such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and the Food Stamp Program, which provide or pay for nutritional services, are not considered to be health plans).

• Well - versed in dealing with displaced families or families hit with natural disasters • Adept at identifying families eligible for community services and assisting them through the enrollment process • Competent at assisting families in need of financial help regarding food stamps and healthcare help • Track record of extensive fund raising for populations hit with natural disasters