Conservatives will likely point to private charity or paid work as the solution here. But families on SNAP are already relying on overstretched food banks to fill in the gaps in the program. And most families on SNAP are already working--their jobs just don't pay enough to keep their kids fed.
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Catherine Rampell
“it would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits” www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...
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https://www.cbpp.org/research/most-working-age-snap-participants-work-but-often-in-unstable-jobs#:~:text=A%20majority%20of%20the%20adults,(See%20Figure%206.)&text=Regardless%20of%20how%20long%20they,getting%20SNAP%20than%20other%20participants.
Theyre cutting services AND pulling funding away from local governments to fund their billionaires cronies.
Charity in an age when the rich are increasingly hoarding or spending it on vanity projects.
It'll be a hoot when the monied start whinging about having no employees since they allowed them all to starve and tanked the birth rate.
I did.
They are emergency services. They can't know what it's like.