Trump's food stamp cuts begin soon - and black Americans to be hardest hit

[dalton99a]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/19/food-stamps-bank-georgia-african-americans

Trump's food stamp cuts begin soon – and black Americans to be hardest hit
New work requirements are set to throw 700,000 people off Snap benefits, with African Americans to be particularly hard hit
Khushbu Shah in Atlanta
Thu 19 Dec 2019 04.00 EST

As Kyle Waide visited the Atlanta community food bank recently, where he is CEO, he ran into a woman who had recently lost her administrative job at a university. She was looking for work, she told him, but it was hard to find. She was struggling to get by.

Though she had food stamp benefits, she still needed to visit Waide’s food bank until she landed a new job, she added, because she had a home and a child to pay for. With her job gone, she said, she needed all the extra help she could get to feed her family.

Thousands in Atlanta like her are already struggling to make ends meet, even before the Trump administration scales back benefits to low-income Americans to the supplemental nutrition assistance program (Snap) as food stamps are known. Approximately 700,000 Americans will soon lose their benefits as the government tightens the regulations around stable work requirements for recipients, stretching the already scarce resources of the communities that Waide’s operation helps.

Those communities are often African American, raising the prospect that Trump’s move will put extra stress on minority families. Approximately one in three households using Snap benefits are African American. In general, African American households are more likely to experience food insecurity, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In 2016, Snap helped more than 13 million African American households put food on the table, according to data from the US agriculture department’s fiscal year 2016 Snap Households Characteristic data.

Alex Camardelle, senior policy analyst at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, says many of the 100,000 Georgians who are thought to be affected by the coming change will be African American.

Black Georgians, he adds, have an unemployment rate in the state that could be triple that of white residents, often because of additional barriers they face, like where they live, access to transportation and the difficulty of finding a job in a mandated period of time.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. Trump and his rich freinds who like cruelty

To the poor are trying to make people suffer more.

My food stamps used to be around 80 bucks a month. Now it's 60 bucks a month. 2 bucks a day.
And I can't eat the cheap carbohydrate laden foods that are cheap because I am diabetic.

[crickets]

2. It's deliberate and it's awful. This evil pos has got to go. nt

[ananda]

3. Just in time for Hater-Christmas.

Well done, haters.