"Donald Trump’s Proposal to Cut Food Stamps" by Daniel E.
(Above is show how many people would lose or gain food stamps in their state)
Donald Trump’s administration has came out with a proposal to cut food stamps. This proposal could cause millions of people to lose food stamps or cut the amount of food a person can get. Food stamps feeds more than 36 million people. Food stamps (SNAP) is what helps millions of Americans to eat. The proposed changes will negatively impact millions across the country. A positive is that in seven states, the changes will give more people food stamp access. The USDA estimates that the changes would reduce the SNAP budget by about $4.2 billion. This change will prove to be a major cost for those living in metropolitan areas with high living costs.
But the main issue is that SNAP is not intended to be a work program in the first place, but is instead intended to address food insecurity within the United States. As it operates now, SNAP does not discourage people from participating in the labor market. These new rules also have advocates in states like Nevada worried. Nevada could see up to 22 percent of recipients lose access to food stamps, which could be devastating in a place where 12.3 percent of households face food insecurity, according to the USDA. The Urban Institute in a study released last month estimated that, when taken together, the three measures would affect roughly 2.2 million households and 3.7 million individual beneficiaries.
An analysis from policy firm Mathematica suggests 9 percent of households nationwide that currently receive food stamps, or SNAP, would no longer qualify for those benefits under this proposed rule. But that percentage could be much higher in certain states. If it affects 9 percent of households nationwide. This could cause a large number of children relying on school food to be their own meal.
If the Trump administration’s proposed rule goes into effect, Delaware, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, Washington, Oregon and Nevada are projected to lose 15 percent or more of their SNAP recipients, according to Mathematica’s latest analysis. All of those states have more generous standards than the federal government’s. Overall, 11 states do not have expanded eligibility for food stamps, which means that under the new rule, they would not see any change. Nearly 194,000 households that face losing SNAP benefits are home to at least one person living with a disability, and almost 790,000 households receiving those benefits are in poverty.
Under the new rule, states can only issue waivers if a city or county has an unemployment rate of 6 percent or higher. The waivers will be good for one year and will require the governor to support the request. The final rule will be published in the federal register Thursday and go into effect in April.
Do you think this will cause a problem of people going hungry in the United States? How do you feel that this could affect the people in your hometown and the towns around? Do you think this proposal will pass?
Works Cited
Betz, Bradford. “White House Tightens Food Stamp Requirements, Potentially Affecting
Hundreds of Thousands of People.” Fox News, FOX News Network, 5 Dec. 2019, www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-tightens-food-stamp-requirements.
McCausland, Phil. “Trump Administration Proposals Could Cause Millions to Lose Food
Stamps.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 5 Dec. 2019, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-proposal-could-cause-millions-lose-food-stamps-n1092866.
Santhanam, Laura. “Here's Who Could Lose Food Stamps under Trump's Proposed Changes.”
PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 5 Sept. 2019, www.pbs.org/newshour/health/heres-who-could-lose-food-stamps-under-trumps-proposed-changes.
I feel that the lowering of food stamps will have a negative affect on many states in the United States. Many families have to survive on food stamps in order to get food and support their families. I think that we should not have lowered the food stamps,
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I think that this could cause a problem for people that do need food stamps. I am not sure if this law will impact our area too much but it probably will. A lot of people take advantage of food stamps and i feel like this new law is to stop people form doing so, but with everything good comes something bad and vise versa. I think there is a strong chance that this law can pass, but I am not sure what else may come with the new law.
ReplyDeleteI knew that many people thought that food stamps were unnecessary, but I didn't know it was a huge problem that needed changing. I believe that there are many people that use food stamps that do not really need them. I can see where people are coming from when they talk about paying for people that do not need help. I think it would make more people go hungry, but there are other options when it comes to getting food, such as soup kitchens. In Arkansas there are many people that use food stamps because the state is more poor than states around us. More people around in surrounding communities will be going hungry because there are not as many options around here for food, unless you have some type of payment. I do not think that this would pass because Americans will end up going hungry and no one wants that.
ReplyDeleteThis could potentially cause a problem for people that require food stamps, but there are also people who abuse the use of food stamps. The policy needs to be changed and replaced with something more practical. I believe the law will pass because the middle class is frustrated and tired of paying their hard earned cash on some people that abuse their help from the government .
ReplyDeleteCutting necessary resources to impoverished families in the United States is not something I support. I am glad that this will help some people, but what about those other families that relied on SNAP to feed themselves? I Would like to learn more about this to see how it effects Arkansans.
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