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Food Research and Action Center
Director of Government Affairs at the Food Research and Action Center
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Ellen Teller
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FROM Ellen Teller
To the Point
Food Stamps and the Politics of Hunger Families with children, the elderly and the disabled are feeling the first cut ever in the Food Stamp program. Automatic reductions of $5 billion took place on Friday, cutting monthly benefits for 48 million people. For a family of four, that's a reduction of $36 a month, about $1.40 per meal.
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