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in support of SNAP. Download an alphabetical list of signers (pdf).
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asking that SNAP and other low-income programs be protected in any deficit reduction plan.
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About the FRAC Action Council
The FRAC Action Council is the 501(c)(4) arm of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC).
Earlier this week, President Obama released his FY2013 budget which included proposals to strengthen and protect SNAP and the nation’s nutrition safety net programs. Crucial proposals to improve anti-hunger programs included: a proposal to restore the cuts made to SNAP (food stamp) benefit allotments in the 2010 child nutrition bill and scheduled to take place in FY2013; a proposal to continue to suspend SNAP time limits for certain working-age, low-income adults without dependents; and a proposal to increase WIC’s cash value vouchers for fruits and vegetables for children from $6 a month to $8 a month, consistent with the Institute of Medicine recommendation. Read FRAC’s analysis, and send President Obama a thank you.
Highlights: SNAP not only provides much-needed support for vulnerable Americans, but also gives a significant boost to the economy. An increase of $1 billion in SNAP spending generates as many as 17,900 full-time jobs. Read the JEC press release and download the report (pdf).
Letters signed by Senators (pdf) and Representatives (pdf) call for sufficient Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding, and urge distribution of benefits as winter approaches. Many Americans, struggling financially during this period of high employment and a sluggish economy, are finding themselves forced to choose between paying for food or paying for energy.
The Senate defeated Amendment #810 by a vote of 58-41 late on Thursday, October 20. The amendment, offered by Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), to the FY2012 Agriculture Appropriations bill, would have eliminated categorical eligibility for SNAP. Such a cut would have taken 1 million needy people from more than 40 states out of the SNAP program, taken free school breakfast and lunch away from 200,000 low-income children, increased hunger among children and seniors alike, and vastly increased state administrative costs and red tape.
Click here to see how your Senator voted. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) was the only Democrat to vote yes. Several Republicans voted against the amendment, including Senators Brown (MA), Coats (IN), Cochran (MS), Collins (ME), Lugar (MS), Rubio (FL), and Snowe (ME). If your Senator opposed the Sessions amendment, make sure to thank him/her for this commitment to SNAP.
FARM BILL
New FRAC Analysis: Lugar/Stutzman Bill Contains Flawed Nutrition Title; Its Key Proposal Was Previously Rejected
Farm bill legislation (S. 1658/H.R. 3111) that Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Representative Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) introduced on October 5th would cut spending on the nutrition title of the Farm Bill by $14 billion over ten years. With millions of people struggling against food hardship and joblessness in the midst of ongoing high unemployment and underemployment, the nation’s safety net needs to be strengthened, not undercut. FRAC opposes S. 1658/H.R. 3111. Read more…
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