{"article":{"id":254068,"heading":"BTL:Congress Targets Food Stamp Program for Deep Cuts","author":"Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http","created":"2012-07-02 11:09:03","modified":"2012-07-02 11:09:03","last_modified":"Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:09:03","article":"

Congress Targets Food Stamp Program for Deep Cuts

Interview with Ellen Vollinger, food stamp\/legal director with Food Research and Action Center, conducted by Scott Harris

As Congress debates the 1,000-page Farm Bill, Republicans have targeted the federal food stamp program for deep cuts, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Over the past four years of the Great Recession, the numbers of Americans receiving food stamps has increased from 28 million to 46 million, with a doubling of the cost. With stubbornly high unemployment and millions of people facing the exhaustion of their unemployment compensation checks, many middle-class families will be turning to help from the food stamp program for the first time in their lives. Story continues

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