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38.2 million Americans-including 13.8 million children-are food insecure. With an increase of more than 2 million people reported food insecure in 2004 compared to 2003.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On a party-line vote, a Republican-run U.S. House of Representatives committee voted to cut food stamps by $844 million on Friday, just hours after a new U.S. Agriculture Department report showed more Americans are struggling to put food on the table.
About 300,000 Americans would lose benefits due to tighter eligibility rules for food stamps, the major U.S. antihunger program, under the House plan.
The House plan would also cut U.S. crop supports by $1 billion, land stewardship by $760 million, research by $620 million and rural development by $446 million.
The House plan would also cut U.S. crop supports by $1 billion, land stewardship by $760 million, research by $620 million and rural development by $446 million.
Military families on food stamps? It's not an urban myth. About 25,000 families of servicemen and women are eligible, and this may be an underestimate, since the most recent Defense Department report on the financial condition of the armed forces--from 1999--found that 40 percent of lower-ranking soldiers face "substantial financial difficulties." Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, reports hearing from constituents that the Army now includes applications for food stamps in its orientation packet for new recruits.
AUSTIN, Texas Texas has the highest percentage of households at risk of going hungry than any other state over the past three years.
The U-S Agriculture Department reports that between 2002 and 2004, more than 16 percent of Texas households at some point had trouble getting enough food for everyone in a family. In almost five percent of the Texas households, at least one family member did go hungry at least one time in that period because there wasn't enough money to buy food. That's the fourth-highest rate in the country.
Nationally, about eleven and a-half percent of households had been at risk of going in that time period. More than three and a-half percent of U-S households had at least one family member go hungry.
Copyright 2005 Associated Press.
Originally posted by xpert11
For the benfit of a non American what are food stamps?
#not a 1 liner#
Originally posted by xpert11
Rant Thanks for that telling me what food stamps are as a non american Im not sure what to make of them.