http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/30/let-them-eat-nothing-at-all
Comment: Marlene Martin
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Let them eat…nothing at all
Marlene Martin looks at a new addition to what’s been called the New Jim Crow.
May 30, 2013
GIVE US your tired, your poor, your hungry, huddled masses…and we’ll make sure they stay that way.
That’s the message that members of Congress–Republicans and Democrats alike–are sending with their proposals to cut funding and add new restrictions for the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP–better known as the food stamp program.
The program, whose benefits make the difference between eating and not eating for many of the poor and working poor, has suffered many spending cuts in the era of austerity. This year’s proposals for cuts–totaling more than $20 billion over 10 years in the House version, with 2 million people dropped from the program–are no different in that respect.
But Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana added insult to injury by…
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