Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Trump Budget Would Swap Food Stamps for ‘100% American’ Food Packages - Bloomberg
On the Bloomberg.com website, Alan Bjerga reported on this:
"In what would be one of the biggest shakeups of the U.S. food-stamp program in its five-decade history, President Donald Trump is proposing to slash cash payments and substitute them with '100 percent American grown food' given to recipients.
The changes, outlined Monday in Trump’s budget proposal, would reshape the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which supports roughly one in eight Americans, by reducing cash spending by about one-third from current levels.
The plan is part of an effort to reform SNAP and save a projected $214 billion over a decade. "
