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  • Farm Bill Update - June 7, 2012

    As you know, the Farm Bill funds critical hunger relief programs, like TEFAP and SNAP (food stamps), that help put food on the table for America’s vulnerable children, seniors, and low-income families. Right now, the Farm Bill is moving through both the House and Senate. As a result, we have a critical window to get our message to Members of Congress.

  • Deficit Reduction Must Reflect American Values

  • Oklahoma food bank director warns against food stamp cuts

    Testifying before a U.S. House subcommittee, Rodney Bivens, who runs Oklahoma's largest food bank, says more people would go hungry if food stamp benefits are cut because private charities can't make up the difference.

  • Vilsack: House GOP food stamp cuts top obstacle to passage of 2012 farm bill

    Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, in an interview with The Hill this week, said demands by the House GOP for deep cuts especially for food stamps now constitute the top obstacle for passage of a 2012 farm bill by September when current farm programs expire. Vilsack offered some praise for the version of the farm bill that passed out of the Senate Agriculture Committee last week, even though it contains about $9 billion less in deficit reduction than President Obama had sought in his latest budget...

  • Feeding America Responds to Passage of a Farm Bill by the Senate Agriculture Committee

    Read Feeding America's Press Release on the Senate committee passage of the Farm Bill.

  • Cutting food stamps hurts poor

    The Agriculture Department published new research this month that further cements the significant positive impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, in combating poverty’s effects on low-income Americans. The report’s implications are clear: Lives of the 46.5 million Americans — primarily children, the elderly or disabled — who rely on this critical lifeline are better because they have a safety net to help them meet basic nutrition needs when times are tough.

  • House panel okays $33 billion in food stamp cuts

    A U.S. congressional panel approved about $33 billion in cuts over 10 years from food stamp benefits, in a largely symbolic and highly partisan vote opposed by committee Democrats and by anti-poverty groups.

  • Feeding America Strongly Opposes House Cuts to SNAP Program

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