The US House Agriculture committee has agreed to 16 point five billion dollars in cuts to the food stamp program known as SNAP. That's 12 billion more than the Senate agreed to cut. The CEO of the anti-hunger group Share Our Strength, Billy Shore, says half of the Americans whose meals depend on SNAP are children:
Shore calls ending childhood hunger a responsibility to be shared by the public and private sectors. And SNAP is the public contribution to the partnership. Anti hunger groups say the cuts in SNAP would eliminate benefits for about three million Americans and end school lunch programs for 300 thousand children in Michigan and around the nation.
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Shore calls ending childhood hunger a responsibility to be shared by the public and private sectors. And SNAP is the public contribution to the partnership. Anti hunger groups say the cuts in SNAP would eliminate benefits for about three million Americans and end school lunch programs for 300 thousand children in Michigan and around the nation.
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