Recently congress gutted nearly five billion dollars from the food stamp program
The average family of four will see a $36 cut in their monthly benefits, bringing the average per-person benefit from $1.50 a meal to $1.40 a meal,\. The cut, which will reduce monthly benefits for all 47 million Americans enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by roughly 7 percent, is punishing our most helpless citizens at a time when jobs are scarce and tax incentives for corporations are at an all time high